Joe Biden Lets Hospital Force Pro-Life Nurse to Commit Abortion, Ignoring Federal Law

Last year an abortionist at the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC) forced a nurse to help her commit an abortion despite her bosses telling her well beforehand that she would not do abortions because of her religious beliefs. But despite the nurse filing suit, it was quietly dismissed by Joe Biden’s Department of Justice on Friday.

Life News reports:

After Roe v. Wade the medical profession split in a way that Harry Blackmun, the author of Roe, did not expect. He imagined that women would obtain abortions “with the guidance of her physician” in respected hospitals and medical practices all over America, excepting those run by religious institutions. Instead, the medical profession, rightly fearing for its reputation, offloaded abortion work to the legions of “abortion clinics” that began to spring up like McDonald’s, but without the smile, all across the country. To the average American today, there are doctors and there are abortionists, and overwhelmingly, medical professionals do not want to be identified with the latter. Every year, thousands of medical professionals quietly decline to train in, assist, perform, or refer for abortions for a simple reason — they entered the practice of medicine to save lives, not end them. The more people recognize that abortion is not health care, the harder it is for abortion conglomerates to recruit and retain abortion workers. After all, who wants to put on their resume that they abort “products of conception” all day long for a living? This explains in part why Big Abortion is desperate to eliminate conscience protections for medical professionals that have been in place for decades because it helps their bottom line to have more people complicit in their sordid business. And now with President Biden and HHS secretary Xavier Becerra in power, the abortion industry is getting its wish.

Although the nurse victim of UVMMC’s malfeasance was deeply traumatized, she mustered the courage to file a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at HHS, which is responsible for enforcing our nation’s many conscience-protection laws. I was director of OCR at the time and ordered an investigation by the office’s Conscience and Religious Freedom Division which was founded precisely to handle cases such as these. The Division’s career professionals, with assistance from career attorneys at the Office of General Counsel, issued findings of violation against the hospital which led directly to a lawsuit by the DOJ to enforce compliance with the law.

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HHS issued formal findings of violation against UVMMC after a thorough investigation. It simply cannot continue to fund a violator of the law that refuses to agree to come into compliance. Becerra should know this principle well because he was the California attorney general when HHS disallowed $200 million of Medicaid funds to the state for forcing people to buy abortion insurance contrary to federal conscience-protection laws. Even the Obama administration entered into a corrective action agreement with a hospital that had forced a nurse to assist in an abortion, but not Biden. We now know, if there was ever any doubt, that Biden and Becerra’s first loyalty is not to their proclaimed Catholic faith or to the law, but to abortion, abortion, and more abortion.

It is highly unlikely that Congress will hold Joe Biden’s regime accountable for this, but it chips away at medical professionals’ rights of conscience.

Prolife Update Staff