Leadership at the Catholic Benefits Association believes the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will soon announce new regulations that may pose an existential threat to religious-based employers including Catholic hospitals.
HHS expected to propose health care rule on abortion, transgender services
Court denies religious exemption on vaccine for N.Y. health care workers
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Dec. 6, 2021, that all employers in the private sector must implement COVID-19 vaccine mandates for their workers in New York as the highly transmissible omicron variant spread in the U.S.
Survey: Most don’t see reasons to seek vaccine religious exemption as valid
These details were found in the report, “Religious Identities and the Race Against the Virus: American Attitudes on Vaccination Mandates and Religious Exemptions.” The Dec. 9 report is the third such PRRI-IFYC joint survey this year on vaccines.
Big legislative initiatives may be crowding out passage of Equality Act
The Equality Act was passed in March by the House of Representatives but faces an uncertain outcome in the Senate, which is split more equally between Democrats and Republicans.