Planned Parenthood Sues to Suppress Pro-Life Conscience Rule

The Alliance Defending Freedom is in the fight to protect medical professionals who don't want their right to conscientiously object to any involvement with abortion taken by a lawsuit against the Trump Administration waged by Planned Parenthood. (ADF photo)

The Daily Mail – Planned Parenthood and some allied nonprofits sued the Trump administration Tuesday to block a new federal rule that would let healthcare workers refuse to perform abortions on moral or religious grounds.

Two lawsuits filed in Manhattan federal court said enforcing the conscience rule encourages discrimination. . . The groups argued that the rule would curb access to legal healthcare procedures that include abortions and life-saving treatments.

They also said the rule, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services and scheduled to take effect on July 22, would impose heavy costs on healthcare providers dependent on federal funding, which they could lose by refusing to comply.

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