Pregnancy Centers Fight Back Against Biden Trying to Force Them to Promote Abortions

Several pro-life pregnancy centers in Oklahoma are fighting back against one of the many pro-abortion items on Joe Biden’s agenda. Biden wants to force pregnancy centers to promote abortions instead of providing pregnant women with actual choices and options apart from ending their baby’s life.

Alliance Defending Freedom filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of several pro-life and religious medical associations Friday in State of Oklahoma v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.

Senior Counsel Chris Schandevel told LifeNews that the case involves a Biden administration rule that requires recipients of federal Title X family-planning funds to counsel and refer women for abortions, even though multiple federal laws protect healthcare providers from being forced to participate in abortion if it violates their conscience and religious beliefs.

“Doctors and nurses should not be forced to violate their consciences and their religious beliefs as the price of practicing medicine—especially when those are the very beliefs that lead so many people to enter the healing profession. Healthcare professionals’ oath to ‘do no harm’ directly conflicts with abortion, which ends the life of the unborn child and harms the child’s mother,” he explained.

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Schandevel told LifeNews: “The Biden administration’s Title X rule tries to force doctors and nurses to violate their professional duty to heal and provide life-affirming care to patients. We are urging the 10th Circuit to require the administration to restore Oklahoma’s critical Title X funding without unlawfully mandating that healthcare professionals violate their life-affirming beliefs.”

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is also fighting for the state.

He is asking for a preliminary injunction against the Biden Administration for denying millions of dollars in funding to the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) to punish the state for being pro-life.

The motion comes two months after Drummond sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) after the agency suspended a family planning grant that OSDH has received for more than four decades. The administration took the Title X grant money from Oklahoma and Tennessee and instead gave it to pro-abortion groups such as Planned Parenthood.

The lawsuit emphasized that federal law stipulates that Title X funds cannot be “used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning” and that “Title X in no way requires abortion referrals for a State’s continued participation.”

Gov. Kevin Stitt emphasized his support for Oklahoma’s pro-life policies and said he supports Drummond’s motion.

“President Biden is playing political games with the health care needs of countless Oklahomans all because of our pro-family values. It’s wrong,” he said. “The State of Oklahoma won’t stand idly by while the Biden Administration holds millions of federal dollars hostage, and I applaud General Drummond for taking swift action to combat this outrageous abuse of power.”

Drummond said Oklahoma should not be punished for clashing with the Biden Administration’s agenda.

“I will not stand by while the overzealous Biden Administration attempts to harm Oklahomans in desperate need of healthcare services,” Drummond said. “Oklahoma should not be punished for having pro-life policies that clash with President Biden’s liberal agenda.”

Drummond said he is committed to restoring federal funds for their intended purpose. OSDH uses Title X funds for a range of services such as cancer screening, breast exams, depression screening and pregnancy prevention.

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