Obama Tries to Force Catholic Groups to Pay for Abortions, Now They’re Fighting Back in Court
Yesterday, the Catholic Benefits Association and the Diocese of Fargo filed a lawsuit challenging federal rules that require Catholic hospitals and healthcare providers to perform gender transition procedures and abortions contrary to their own medical judgment and Catholic values. The new rules also require Catholic dioceses, religious orders, and other Catholic employers to cover gender transition surgeries and their group insurers to cover surgical abortions in their health plans. These rules are part of a multi-agency effort to redefine the term “sex” in federal antidiscrimination laws. “For decades, Congress and the courts have understood the term ‘sex’ in federal law to mean biological sex – male and female,”