Outgoing Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards, under whose tenure was exposed a massive criminal trafficking ring of body parts from murdered babies, said that Christians should be forced to perform abortions because having morals and religious freedom is a form of discrimination:
Cecile Richards is making plenty sure to go out from her role as CEO of Planned Parenthood with a bang. Now, she openly advocates forcing Christians to perform abortions against their will.
According to LifeNews, America’s outgoing abortion queen took a big slap at President Trump’s civil rights protections for medical workers who conscientiously object to abortion in a fundraising email to Planned Parenthood members.
President Trump’s administration has made a concerted effort to protect religious liberties from secular coercion, with a new division within the Department of Health and Human Services being created to protect anyone who has a “moral objection” from having any involvement with abortion.
“The Conscience and Religious Freedom Division has been established to restore federal enforcement of our nation’s laws that protect the fundamental and unalienable rights of conscience and religious freedom,” HHS Acting Secretary Eric Hargan stated. “The Conscience and Religious Freedom Division has been established to restore federal enforcement of our nation’s laws that protect the fundamental and unalienable rights of conscience and religious freedom.”
In her email to supporters, entitled “Discrimination, plain and simple. Fight back now,” Richards called this conscience protection “shameful.”
President Trump continues to outdo himself when it comes to pushing terrible health care policy that will do nothing but hurt patients.
But his latest attack is truly shameful: a proposed rule released by HHS seeks to encourage health care workers to discriminate against patients by refusing to provide care because of religious, moral, or personal objections.
Heath care workers might refuse to treat … a person seeking an abortion.
HHS is collecting official public comments on this outrageous new proposal, and it’s our best opportunity to stop it before it becomes the law — impacting people everywhere across the country.
Take a moment to submit your official comment to HHS: Don’t encourage discrimination against people seeking health care.
The number of comments we collect can be used in legal challenges to stop these attacks — so your submission really matters (and it only takes two minutes!).
In each and every one of Trump’s attacks on reproductive health care, it’s patients who are hurt the most. From people living with HIV to trans people to those seeking abortions, these attacks make it even harder for people to access care.
At Planned Parenthood Action Fund, we will always stand firm in our mission to expand access to care and to make it easier for people to get the services they need to live full, independent lives. These discriminatory policies fly right in the face of that mission — and we won’t stand for it.
By this email’s own admission, Planned Parenthood not only believes that abortion should be paid for by the American taxpayers, but also that 1st Amendment rights go right out the door the moment you put on scrubs. (source)