“Healthcare providers should not be forced to violate their best medical judgement or sincerely held religious beliefs. There is no room for political agendas in the doctor-patient relationship"
BISMARCK, ND -- The U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota blocked a requirement known as the “Transgender Mandate” that would force medical professionals and religious hospitals to perform surgery on and provide hormone drugs to people when doing so would violate their sincerely held religious beliefs.
In Sisters of Mercy v. Azar, an order of Catholic nuns, a Catholic university, and Catholic healthcare organizations sued the federal government challenging a provision of the Affordable Care Act that would have forced doctors to perform surgery and provide hormone drugs even if doing so would violate their religious beliefs and medical judgment.