HHS Issues Final Regulation To Protect Health Care Providers From Discrimination

The right of federally funded health care providers to decline to participate in services to which they object, such as abortion, is affirmed by a final regulation that has been issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and is on display today at the Federal Register. Over the past three decades, Congress enacted several statutes to safeguard the freedom of health care providers to practice according to their conscience.

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Filed under: Abortion on December 28th, 2008