Catholic groups and other conservative organizations are going after Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra after a GOP lawmaker accused him of withholding federal funds from hospitals that do not perform transgender surgeries on religious grounds.<\/p>\n
Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., clashed with Becerra at a heated House hearing on Wednesday, demanding that he commit to not blocking federal dollars from doctors or hospitals \u2018that refuse to provide the gender-affirming care that you\u2019re mandating if it violates their religious beliefs.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018You\u2019re going somewhere completely different. First, you\u2019re talking about how a doctor should have the rights to not offer particular care. Then you stretch it out to provide for the system-wide services\u2026 very different,\u2019 Becerra said in a clip later shared by Miller.<\/p>\n
Miller replied, \u2018You\u2019ve put out this guidance and doctors do need to know what are you going to do if they refuse to provide this care?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018A doctor, if that doctor has religious objections, that doctor under these rules is not required to offer the care,\u2019 Becerra said, adding doctors \u2018don\u2019t get federal funding.\u2019<\/p>\n
When Miller pressed him about the faith-based hospitals where many doctors work, he said, \u2018If a health care facility is violating the law and not providing the service they\u2019re required to, they are not entitled to the resources.\u2019<\/p>\n
Becerra told Miller earlier in the exchange, \u2018If a provider for religious reasons objects, they are not forced to provide any particular service.\u2019<\/p>\n
But Miller posted on X after the hearing, \u2018After attempting to lie, HHS Secretary Becerra says the quiet part out loud. Joe Biden\u2019s government will withhold funds from religious hospitals that refuse to provide sex-change operations for young children.\u2019<\/p>\n
CatholicVote President Brian Burch told Fox News Digital, \u2018Secretary Becerra has made a career of targeting Catholics. Now, in his disdain for faith-based health care institutions and medical professionals, including the numerous Catholic hospital systems across the country, he is threatening the care of millions of Americans.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018This administration has done more harm to the Catholic faith and religious Americans than any which has preceded it. It is time for the American people to take a stand against this administration\u2019s overt hostility toward institutions of faith. November can\u2019t come soon enough,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Solidarity HealthShare President Chris Faddis said the recent HHS rule, which prohibits health programs that get federal dollars from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability, age or sex, including whether a patient identifies as LGBTQ+, confirms \u2018our grave concern that his agency has no intention of honoring the empty promise to protect religious freedom\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018These rules mandate gender transition surgeries even when it violates the faith of religious doctors and health care systems, not to mention their best medical judgment,\u2019 Faddis said.<\/p>\n
Katy Talento, executive director of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries and a former Trump administration health adviser, said the rule would force hospitals to provide transgender surgeries \u2018or else lose access to federal funding to care for the poor and elderly, such as Medicaid and Medicare.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Instead of helping young people embrace how God created them as male or female, the Biden administration wants to permanently alter their bodies and force sterilization in many cases. Not only should hospitals use all available legal options to fight back, but Americans more broadly must wake up to this wicked agenda and roundly reject this wicked gender ideology at every turn,\u2019 said Walker Wildmon, vice president of the American Family Association.<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital reached out to HHS for comment.<\/p>\n\n
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