Good news for faith-based foster care

HHS is now providing exemptions from the previous
administration's regulation that did not accommodate the
protections provided for in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) just made life easier for the many children served by faith-based foster care agencies, by correcting the previous administration's failure to follow federal religious freedom protection law. Here are the details from HHS:

U.S. Dept. Health and Human Services advances culture of life through conscience protections

Sec. Azar

On the day of the annual March for Life, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar released a statement on the importance of protecting life in recognition of this being his first March as Secretary of HHS:

Presidential Proclamation on Religious Freedom Day

Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 15, 2019
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DAY, 2019
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

     On Religious Freedom Day, we celebrate our Nation's long‑standing commitment to freedom of conscience and the freedom to profess one's own faith.  The right to religious freedom is innate to the dignity of every human person and is foundational to the pursuit of truth.

   

U.S. House votes to overturn pro-life policies

On Jan. 3, the House passed H.R. 21, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 by a vote of 241 - 190. 234 Democratic Members and 7 Republican Members (Fitzpatrick, Hurd, Katko, King (NY), Stefanik, Upton, Walden) voted in support of the bill. 190 Republicans voted against the bill. 2 Members did not vote.

Essay 12: Can transgender activism silence science?

Drastic? "The Trump administration is
considering narrowly defining gender
as a biological, immutable condition
determined by genitalia at birth...."
Photo by Kira auf der Heide on Unsplash

The New York Times recently published apparently leaked information about plans at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to adjust a 2016 transgender mandate. The adjustment involves reverting to the original Congressional statutory meaning of "sex discrimination" as discrimination based on biological sex.