14. Department of Health and Human Services · Minor
Investigate medical school compliance with the Coats–Snowe Amendment
Printed page 486 14. Department of Health and Human Services
“Investigate state medical school compliance with the Coats–Snowe Amendment, which prohibits discrimination against health care entities that do not provide or undergo training for abortion.”
What has happened
- Not started
No investigation of state medical schools' Coats-Snowe compliance is on any allowlisted record. The nearest in-window action is HHS's June 2026 reorganization of the Office for Civil Rights, which re-creates a Conscience and Religious Freedom Division and names the Coats-Snowe Amendment (42 U.S.C. 238n) among the statutes it enforces - an enforcement capability, not an investigation of medical schools. Cluster negative search A (medical education and conscience) in the Chapter 14 log covers this item.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Federal Register full text “Coats-Snowe” since 2025-01-20 returns four documents: the June 2026 OCR Statement of Organization, the 2026 Unified Agenda introduction, and two Medicare payment rules that mention the amendment only in passing. None is an investigation.
- The planned OCR conscience rule (RIN 0945-AA24, NPRM listed for 07/2026 and not yet published) names Coats-Snowe in its statement of legal basis; it is a rulemaking, not an inquiry into medical schools.
- hhs.gov, including its conscience pages, refused to open for us, so any OCR compliance review announced only on the department’s own site could not be read.
- Action
- other
- Object
- state medical school compliance with the Coats–Snowe Amendment
- ID
- 1352