Conscience Protection Act News Today

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The US state of Arkansas has strengthened its law protecting the religious liberty of individuals and organisations.

Arkansas' Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' signing of a bill protecting religious organizations' religious beliefs and identity from discriminatory actions has generated dueling reactions from religious freedom and LGBT advocacy groups. 

While the Obama administration and its allies last decade waged an all-out war on the conscience rights and the free exercise of religion, Arkansas’s legislature stepped up to pass the Conscience Protection Act.

(The Center Square) – U.S. Health and Human Services has proposed a controversial rule change that would roll back Trump-era conscience protections for healthcare workers.

(The Center Square) – U.S. Health and Human Services has proposed a controversial rule change that would roll back Trump-era conscience protections for healthcare workers.

The Biden administration is seeking to gut rules that protect not only health care workers but also hospitals.

In 2019, the Trump administration issued a regulation empowering the Department of Health and Human Services to robustly enforce federal conscience-protection laws.

Federal law has long protected people’s right to not participate in controversial health care procedures, but Biden aims to gut that.

Now that the “who” question has been answered in the U.S. House, new Speaker Kevin McCarthy is turning Republicans’ attention to the “what.” In the first full week of the GOP’s majority, there are plenty of priorities clamoring for attention, but conservatives have already made it quite clear what’s at the top: life.