Trump Admin. Creates New Conscience & Religious Freedom Division

Many are waiting today to hear the specific details of the overhaul the Trump Administration is giving to the Health and Human Services office Civil Rights division. 

Basically, the Trump administration is creating a new conscience and religious freedom division within the HHS department to to give doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals a choice to opt out of providing services that go against their morals and religious beliefs. As it stands, the conservative policy appears to be very broad and is designed to allow medical professionals to decline participating in abortions and treatment of transgender patients.

Some women's and LGBT rights and physicians groups worry that the new policy will even further discriminate against already vulnerable groups thus making inequities in health care worse.

Check out Twitter's response below:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">OUTRAGEOUS: Roger Severino, Director of the Office for Civil Rights at HHS, just compared the state of religious freedom in the U.S. to the Holocaust.</p>&mdash; HumanRightsCampaign (@HRC) <a href="https://twitter.com/HRC/status/954032735546499073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The event was running late -- just started. Roger Severino, head of the HHS Office of Civil Rights, is up. Here&#39;s a look at his anti-LGBTQ leadership. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LicensetoDiscriminate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LicensetoDiscriminate</a> <a href="https://t.co/Z6TRkRe9YD">https://t.co/Z6TRkRe9YD</a></p>&mdash; Christine Grimaldi (@chgrimaldi) <a href="https://twitter.com/chgrimaldi/status/954017281025236992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pleased to announce the formation of a new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division in the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Make no mistake: this is awful.</p>&mdash; PrestonMitchum (@PrestonMitchum) <a href="https://twitter.com/PrestonMitchum/status/954038508548775937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2018</a></blockquote>
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