The Trump administration plans to “defend the rule vigorously.”
WASHINGTON — Nearly two dozen Democratically led states, counties, and cities sued on Tuesday to overturn a new Trump administration rule that would protect health care workers who refuse medical procedures — like abortion, assisted suicide, or sex reassignment surgery — if it violates their “conscience.
Workers could opt out of performing services without any advance warning to their employers, which would be banned from asking employees about religious objections in advance, the lawsuit says. They argue this undermines their own government-run healthcare systems, which including hospitals and health care agencies, by conflicting with local policies that ban discrimination.
For example, court documents say, “If a woman arrives at the emergency room of one of Plaintiffs’ institutions presenting with a ruptured ectopic pregnancy, the Final Rule would permit a wide swath of employees – from receptionists to nurses to doctors to pharmacists to anesthesiologists – to refuse to assist that patient in real time, and without any advance notice, no matter the intense medical risk to the patient.
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