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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 10:23 AM Jan 2018

The religious activists on the rise inside Trump's health department

The religious activists on the rise inside Trump's health department
Critics fret some agency leaders are blurring the lines between church and state.
By DAN DIAMOND 01/22/2018 05:00 AM EST

A small cadre of politically prominent evangelicals inside the Department of Health and Human Services have spent months quietly planning how to weaken federal protections for abortion and transgender care — a strategy that's taking shape in a series of policy moves that took even their own staff by surprise.

Those officials include Roger Severino, an anti-abortion lawyer who now runs the Office of Civil Rights and last week laid out new protections allowing health care workers with religious or moral objections to abortion and other procedures to opt out. Shannon Royce, the agency's key liaison with religious and grass-roots organizations, has also emerged as a pivotal player.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/22/trump-religious-activists-hhs-351735
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The religious activists on the rise inside Trump's health department (Original Post) workinclasszero Jan 2018 OP
Who needs Al Qaeda when you have fundamentalist evangelicals? Initech Jan 2018 #1
Y'all Qaeda are determined to turn the USA into workinclasszero Jan 2018 #2
Y'all Qaeda!!! Initech Jan 2018 #3

Initech

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1. Who needs Al Qaeda when you have fundamentalist evangelicals?
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 10:33 AM
Jan 2018

These people are terrorists. Good lord I hate these assholes.

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