Ethical and Legal Perspective Health, Medicine, Nursing Paper

Conscience and Religious Freedom Division
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Conscience and Religious Freedom Division
Discrimination in accessing healthcare services is a global health threat. Individuals within minority groups or socially disadvantaged groups such as LGBT often face challenges in accessing health services leading to negative impacts on their health and well-being. In the United States, for example, patients have been discriminated based on their race, color, religions, immigrant status, language proficiency, affiliation, insurance status, to mention a few (Rivenbark & Ichou, 2020).
Numerous studies show experiences of discrimination, delayed or foregone care in health facilities. In the United States, for instance, significant research shows that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender populations encounter countless barriers in accessing healthcare. In reality, LGBT people are turned away or delayed based on their marital status (Rivenbark & Ichou, 2020). Healthcare ethics and patient’s rights advocates for all patients to seek treatments without being mistreated, discriminated, denied services based on their color, religion, social groups and insurance status (Raifman & Galea, 2018). It is annoying amidst the increased health disparities, the United States Health and Human Services introduced CRFD that increases discrimination.
Formed in 2018 by the United States of Health and Human Services, Conscience and Religious Freedom Division seeks to protect healthcare providers who fail to provide treatments that counter their religious values. The advocates of this division argue that it will help restore and enforce a nation’s law that protects the rights of conscience and religious freedom (Sofer, 2018). However, the body is preferably a missed priority as conscience related constraints have been historically low with an average of 1.25 per year (Chavkin et al., 2018). In reality, the civil rights division had rules that enforced conscience and religious freedom laws with high success rates. As such, introducing new conscience and religious Freedom Division is allowing Health and Human Services to fund discrimination at the expense of enforcing civil rights - and therefore should be discarded.
The conscience and religious freedom division opposes the United States Department of Health and Human Service mission and standard ethics of healthcare. The DHHS seeks to improve the health and well-being of all Americans through the provision of high quality, sustainable health services (Raifman & Galea, 2018). Similarly, the standard medical ethics calls for respect, justice and service delivery to all patients regardless of the social, political, and religious backgrounds (Hanák, Ivanová, & Chráska, 2019). While advocates consistently claim this body will offer providers with satisfying spiritual lives, it is baffling which religion would forbid a provider from providing healthcare for patients that come before them. This instead shows how the situation is more politicized rather than enforcing healthcare ...