HHS Releases Revised Health-Worker Religious Conscience Rule (2)

The Health and Human Services Department has revised a Trump-era rule that allowed the agency to strip funds from health-care facilities taking action against workers for citing religious or moral objections to providing care.

The Biden rule announced Tuesday would maintain provisions of the Trump rule—which never went into effect—but nix those that are “redundant or confusing, that undermine the clarity of the statutes Congress enacted to both safeguard conscience rights and protect access to health care, or because significant questions have been raised as to their legality,” the HHS said in its Federal Register filing.

“The Final Rule clarifies ...