Federal Judge Blocks Biden Mandate Requiring Hospitals to Provide Gender Transition Surgeries; Judge Blocks Mandate Requiring Doctors to Perform Gender Reassignment Surgery, and related stories

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Federal Judge Blocks Biden Mandate Requiring Hospitals to Provide Gender Transition Surgeries:

A federal judge has blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a mandate on several religious organizations that would have required them to perform gender transition surgeries or abortions.

Judge Reed O’Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas permanently blocked the Biden administration from applying the mandate to all plaintiffs in the case. Those plaintiffs include the Franciscan Alliance, a Catholic hospital system that operates twelve hospitals in Indiana and Illinois, in addition to numerous other health facilities in those states.

The administration may not enforce the mandate on plaintiffs “in a manner that would require them to perform or provide insurance coverage for gender-transition procedures or abortions,” O’Connor wrote in his ruling.

“No doctor should be forced to perform controversial, medically unsupported procedures that are contrary to their conscience and could be deeply harmful to their patients,” Luke Goodrich, vice president and senior counsel for religious freedom advocacy group Becket, said in a statement. Becket provided counsel for plaintiffs in the case. --->READ MORE HERE

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Religious Victory: Judge Blocks Mandate Requiring Doctors to Perform Gender Reassignment Surgery:

A federal court in Texas blocked a transgender mandate from President Joe Biden that would require doctors to go against their religious beliefs and perform gender transition surgeries.

Judge Reed O’Connor granted a permanent injunction and said that the doctors are "to be exempt from the government’s requirement to perform abortions and gender-transition procedures."

In a win for religious liberty, Monday's ruling prohibits Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra from requiring the Christian plaintiffs to "perform or provide insurance coverage for gender-transition procedures or abortions, including by denying Federal financial assistance because of their failure to perform or provide insurance coverage for such procedures or by otherwise pursuing, charging, or assessing any penalties, fines, assessments, investigations, or other enforcement actions." --->READ MORE HERE

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