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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., November 12, 2019. | SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced that the agency will interpret federal civil rights law to include a ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, leading critics to say it could require hospitals and doctors to perform sex-change surgeries.Â
In an announcement Monday morning, HHS explained that it will interpret Title IXâs explicit prohibition on sex discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
Under the policy, HHS Office for Civil Rights will enforce Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act to protect âthe civil rights of individuals who access or seek to access covered health programs or activitiesâ and prevent discrimination âagainst consumers on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.â
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WATCH: HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra Struggles to Tell CNN’s John Berman Why Vaccinated People Should Wear Masks
By Rudy TakalaMay 10th, 2021, 4:38 pm
Health and Human Services secretary Xavier Becerra said in a Monday interviewed that vaccinated Americans should continue wearing masks to be “as safe as possible.”
“We’re trying to make sure that the guidance that is put out there by the federal government is one that really focuses on safety,” Becerra said in a segment with CNN’s
John Berman. “That’s why the indoor policy should still be masking. But clearly, if you’ve been vaccinated fully and you’re with folks who are also vaccinated … the risk does diminish radically. But you could end up being a carrier and not know it and if somebody hasn’t been vaccinated and doesn’t wear a mask, guess what, there’s still that potential of getting covid.”
Opinion: California s support for reproductive rights still stops at its prison walls
Buffy Wicks and Felicia Espinosa
May 6, 2021
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Family members of inmates visit Folsom Women s Facility in Folsom Calif. in 2014.Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press
If you live in California, you probably think that our state is beyond the medieval assaults on reproductive rights that we see in the rest of the country.
But did you know that California is home to the world’s largest women’s prison? And that a California district attorney filed murder charges against two women Adora Perez and Chelsea Becker for experiencing stillbirths, allegedly caused by drug use?
The first 100 days of a president’s term can reveal a new administration’s priorities.
Unfortunately, the first 100 days of the Biden administration which the president marked on Thursday, the day after his address to a joint session of Congress reveal an executive branch determined to advance an aggressively intolerant ideology.
President Joe Biden claims to promote “unity” and “serving all Americans,” but his administration’s divisive actions undermine women’s rights and safety, and trample on Americans’ freedom of speech, conscience, and religion.
The president has issued 40 executive orders to date. On just his first two days in office, Biden signed 17 executive orders more than four times the number of first-day orders signed by his four predecessors combined.