Religious Freedom

The following comments were submitted to the US Department of Health and Human Services in response to proposed rules that would allow health care workers to refuse to treat individuals or provide services they object to on religious or moral grounds. 

March 27, 2018

US Department of Health and Human Services

Office for Civil Rights

Attention: Conscience NPRM, RIN 0945-ZA03

Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 509F

200 Independence Avenue, SW

Washington, DC 20201

RE:  Docket HHS-OCR-2018-002

May 5, 2017. Boston, MA. The Executive Order on Religious Freedom signed by President Donald Trump did not contain the explicitly anti-LGBTQI provisions that were part of leaked early drafts of the Order. However, leaders of DignityUSA, the organization of Catholics working for equality, justice and full inclusion of LGBTQI people in the Church and society, are warning that there are ominous signals that hard-won rights could soon be rolled back.