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The HHS announcement of its new interpretation of sex discrimination in health care undermines medical conscience rights and disregards the will of Congress as articulated in the Administrative Procedures Act.

EWTN News Nightly recently interviewed Louis Brown to discuss the passing of the Medical Conscience and Diversity Act in Arkansas

EWTN Pro-Life Weekly recently interviewed Louis Brown to discuss conscience protection concerns with President Biden's Build Back Better bill.

Defending Medical Conscience and Building Catholic Health Care “Nothing surpasses the greatness or dignity of a Human Person”. -Pope St. John Paul II “Nothing surpasses the greatness or dignity of a human person” (JPII, National Mall Oct. 7, 1979). Each human person is unique, unrepeatable, and infinitely worthy of dignity and respect. However, our health […]

CMF Digital Conference on the Challenges Facing Religious Freedom in Health Care, & What We Can Do About It “If we protect Conscience and Religious freedom in health care, we allow the culture of life to flourish…We allow a health care system to advance that affirms the dignity of the human person from conception to […]

CMF Statement clarifying Catholic teaching regarding the civil right to refuse the COVID-19 vaccine for religious and conscience reasons

Statement by The Christ Medicus Foundation addressing the problematic rise of vaccine mandates “The Christ Medicus Foundation calls for a respect of the conscience of the individual to make their own decisions about what medical interventions to receive or not receive.” For Immediate Release(Troy, MI) July 1, 2021 Mike O’Dea, Christ Medicus Foundation (CMF) Board […]

Last night, on June 30, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed into law major state budget legislation that included broad medical conscience protections. The law of the land in Ohio now fully protects the civil right of medical professionals to love and care for patients consistent with their moral, ethical, and religious convictions.

The Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in Fulton strongly indicates that the Equality Act legislation, certain proposed HHS regulatory action, and other efforts to destroy the religious freedom rights of doctors, nurses, faith-based hospitals, and health care entities would be an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment right to religious liberty.

Now is the perfect time — to place the dignity of the human person at the center of the relationship and build an ethical, life-affirming and sustainable healthcare system. The excerpt below is from Michael Vacca’s commentary in National Catholic Register published on June 9, 2021 All of this is particularly urgent in light of […]

The HHS announcement of its new interpretation of sex discrimination in health care undermines medical conscience rights and disregards the will of Congress as articulated in the Administrative Procedures Act.