14. Department of Health and Human Services · Minor
Rescind the analysis dismissing the University of Vermont Medical Center case
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“Rescind the legal analysis supporting the Biden Administration’s decision to dismiss the University of Vermont Medical Center case dealing with the forced participation of a nurse in abortion in violation of law.”
What has happened
- Done
OCR's Rescission of Office for Civil Rights Documents Under Executive Order 14192, Deregulation Item 1, disavows the legal positions in the July 2021 letter by which OCR withdrew its August 2019 notice of violation against the University of Vermont Medical Center - the notice that had found the medical center violated the Church Amendments by requiring a nurse to assist in an abortion. OCR states that the 2021 letter's reading of the Church Amendments through a Title VII undue-hardship framework "no longer represent[s] the views of the Department or this Administration" and repudiates it. That is exactly the analysis this Quote names.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Full text read at govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-01-26/html/2026-01434.htm; the item is headed “Deregulation Item 1: OCR Letter to University of Vermont Medical Center”.
- The notice repudiates the analysis; it does not reinstate the 2019 notice of violation or reopen the case, which the Quote does not ask for.
- Action
- rescind
- Object
- legal analysis dismissing the University of Vermont Medical Center case
- ID
- 1383