Theocratic Health Care Comes To America

Christian Nationalists are driving cruelty and anti-intellectualism to new limits

The anti-vaxxers, anti-science and anti-intellectual MAGA cult within the Christian Nationalists under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. have taken over the direction, scope and indeed, the very future of health care in the United States. That future seems to be very dark. Here is a quote from a new report in the Guardian:

“The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Sunday it had reorganized its office for civil rights, bringing conscience and religious freedom to the top. And on Friday, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) issued a new report on religious liberty that includes multiple references to abortion, vaccines and gender-affirming care.

The reorganized HHS office will require federal agencies, state and local governments, healthcare providers, health plans and others to focus on “protecting the free exercise of religion and conscience and the right to be free from coercion in HHS-conducted or funded programs”, according to the public notice.”

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