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January 19, 2018

New Trump Admin Office Will Shield Healthcare Workers Who Deny Services
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The Trump administration cleared the way Thursday for healthcare workers
to refuse to provide services-including abortions, gender affirming
surgery and contraception-that run counter to their stated moral or
religious convictions. This is Roger Severino, head of the Office of
Civil Rights inside the Health and Human Services Department.

Roger Severino: "And we are saying, with this launch of a new division,
that you do not need to shed your religious identity, you do not need to
shed your moral convictions, to be part of the public square. Everyone
is entitled to an equal seat."

NARAL Pro-Choice America blasted the move, tweeting, "Despite the name,
this division isn't *actually* here to enforce religious
freedom–it's designed to protect providers who discriminate
against women & LGBTQ people." The new department is supposedly called
the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division. That's of the HHS.


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