Signed into law April 24, the Medical Ethics Defense Act states that a "healthcare provider must not be required to participate in or pay for a healthcare procedure, treatment, or service that violates the conscience of the healthcare provider."

It also shields doctors, nurses, and others who provide "information relating to an act or omission the healthcare provider reasonably believes to be a violation of this part to the healthcare provider's employer, the attorney general and reporter, a state agency charged with protecting healthcare rights of conscience, the United States department of health and human services' office of civil rights, or another federal agency charged with protecting healthcare rights of conscience"; as well as those who "testify, assist, or participate, in a proceeding concerning such violation."

"Tennessee's MED Act ensures that healthcare professionals are not forced to participate in procedures that violate their ethical, moral, or religious beliefs," Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Greg Chafuen said in praise of the news... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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