Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he believes health care professionals are entitled to the "right of conscience," and shouldn't ...

It protects the fundamental rights of conscience—the freedom to believe and express different ideas—in a variety of ways. Under the First Amendment, Americans have both the right to exercise ...

But most of these laws are merely strings on federal funding and do not contain a private right of action allowing private parties to sue. This means any “backstop” the conscience laws provide ...

Yet the state bans only referrals for reasons of conscience and not referrals for ... to plaintiffs violates their Free Exercise rights. The three-judge panel cited the Supreme Court’s Chevron ...