""Amid a national shortage of behavioral health providers, every qualified professional is essential to meeting the needs of people in crisis,""
""OCR is committed to ensuring that faith-based organizations can contribute fully and that no provider is asked to violate their religious beliefs or moral convictions as they step forward to serve.""
""sex-rejecting procedures.""
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into whether a state health department's behavioral-health licensing rules violate federal protections for religious and moral objections, focusing on requirements to participate in or refer for abortion care or "sex-rejecting procedures." HHS framed the action as protecting faith-based providers' ability to participate in health care without violating their beliefs. The enforcement approach leverages conscience-rights policy, creates legal uncertainty for providers, and risks limiting access to gender-affirming and behavioral-health services amid workforce shortages and shifting regulations.
#hhs-ocr-investigation #conscience-protections #transgendergender-affirming-care #behavioral-health-licensing
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