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Secular Coalition Signs On To Letter Opposing Trump Administration’s Waiver For Taxpayer-Funded Discrimination

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Today, we joined 119 organizations in signing a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar denouncing the Trump Administration’s policy allowing South Carolina’s taxpayer-funded foster care agencies to discriminate based on religion, leaving vulnerable kids to suffer the consequences. We urge Secretary Azar to reverse this discriminatory policy, which harms children and families […]

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The Trump Administration Is Trying to Make It Easier for Doctors to Deny Care to LGBTQ People

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced last week that it is close to finalizing a conscience protection rule that would allow people to discriminate in health-care settings under cover of law. The final rule is at the Office of Management and Budget for review and not available to the public. But under

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Trump administration grants waiver to agency that works only with Christian families

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The Trump administration said Wednesday it was granting a Christian ministry in South Carolina permission to participate in the federally funded foster-care program, even though the group will work only with Christian families. The long-standing policy of Miracle Hill Ministries of Greenville violates a regulation, put into place in the closing days of the Obama

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A Christian ministry won’t change its Christians-only criteria for foster-care parents. Is that okay with Trump?

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The Miracle Hill Ministries in Greenville, S.C., makes clear from the start that only Christian parents need apply for its foster-care program. On its forms, candidates are asked to offer personal testimony of their faith or salvation. “Our existence and identity is tied to our faith in God and belief in Jesus Christ,” said Reid

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Trump administration halts study that would use fetal tissue ‘to discover a cure for HIV’

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The Trump administration has shut down at least one government-run study that uses fetal tissue implanted into mice even before federal health officials reach a decision on whether to continue such research, which is opposed by anti-abortion groups. A senior scientist at a National Institutes of Health laboratory in Montana told colleagues that the Health

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The Trump administration’s anti-birth control agenda, explained

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One day after the midterm elections, the Trump administration released final rules allowing employers to opt out of providing health insurance that covers birth control. The administration has been chipping away at the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act, which requires most employers to offer insurance that covers birth control, for more than a

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The Trump Administration Just Reissued Rules Allowing Employers “Religious Or Moral” Exemptions To Covering Birth Control

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The Trump administration released two rules Wednesday evening that would allow employers with “religious or moral” objections to providing insurance coverage for birth control to be exempt from providing that coverage. The rules are amended versions of rules that the administration first released in October 2017. Several organizations quickly took the administration to court over

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