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Demand letter requires affirmation of lodging as required by federal regulation.
A hospital is being knowledgeable that requiring ultrasound technicians to participate within the facility’s abortion enterprise violates their rights.
It’s the American Center for Law and Justice that has dispatched a letter to Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, N.M.
The enterprise, which not has a spiritual affiliation, a number of months in the past modified its coverage to demand that ultrasound techs assist in abortions – a reversal of the earlier apply.
“This shift has put workers within the unattainable place of selecting between their livelihoods or their spiritual convictions,” defined the authorized consultants at ACLJ.
The hospital is demanding in its new coverage that techs take part, and exemptions will not be assured.
“If an worker is unwilling to take part and an lodging can’t be ensured, they danger job reassignment or termination. Furthermore, even when an alternate place is out there, the worker should endure a four-week unpaid go away till a switch is finalized,” the ACLJ defined.
When the techs submitted battle of conscience types, there wasn’t a solution.
So the ACLJ dispatched a proper demand letter to Presbyterian Hospital explaining what the hospital is required to do underneath federal regulation, together with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Church Modification.
These “explicitly defend healthcare employees from being compelled to take part in procedures that violate their spiritual beliefs,” the ACLJ mentioned.
The group mentioned, “We’ve got demanded that Presbyterian Hospital present written assurances confirming that our purchasers shall be absolutely exempt from helping in any abortion-related procedures with out penalty or opposed motion. Ought to the hospital fail to conform, we’re ready to take all crucial authorized and administrative actions to defend the conscience rights of those devoted medical professionals.”
The ACLJ defined the regulation is obvious: “Employers should present affordable lodging for sincerely held spiritual beliefs except doing so imposes an undue hardship – an ordinary that the U.S. Supreme Courtroom has strengthened in latest rulings.”
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