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If medical professionals in Idaho want nothing to do with killing babies or providing “trans” care or paying for any of it, they don’t have to. Governor Brad Little just signed the Medical Ethics Defense Act into law.
Doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals with religious or conscience objections to mutilating patients and killing the unborn are now protected from government retaliation.
“The legislature finds that the right of conscience is a fundamental and inalienable right. It was central to the founding of the United States, has been deeply rooted in the nation’s history and tradition for centuries, and has been central to the practice of medicine, through the Hippocratic oath, for millennia,” the measure (PDF) reads
The legislature sought to protect medical professionals, given the “swift pace of scientific advancement and the expansion of medical capabilities, along with the creation of new rights for patients to access…” These new rights for patients don’t preempt a provider’s religious beliefs or rights of conscience.
Providers retain the right under Idaho law to decline to perform or pay for specific procedures without facing fines or loss of livelihood.
