New York AG Leads Suit To Block Doctors And Nurses To Refuse Health Care Based On Religious Belief

(The New York Daily New)

New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading a coalition of states suing to block a planned move to give health care workers more latitude to refuse to treat patients over their personal opposition to procedures from measles shots to birth control.

The lawsuit seeks to roll back a new federal “Final Rule” permitting hospitals or individual doctors and nurses freedom to use their own religious beliefs as an excuse to not offer needed medical treatment. Read more