Title: Conscience Protections for Health Care Providers | HHS.gov
Headings: Conscience Protections for Health Care Providers
Conscience Protections for Health Care Providers
Your Conscience Rights
Federal Statutory Health Care Provider Conscience Protections
The Church Amendments
Public Health Service Act § 245
The Weldon Amendment
The Affordable Care Act
How to File a Conscience Complaint
Resources
Has Your Conscience or Religious Freedom Been Violated?

Content: 2) refuses to make arrangements for such activities; or 3) attends (or attended) a post-graduate physician training program, or any other program of training in the health professions, that does not (or did not) perform induced abortions or require, provide, or refer for training in the performance of induced abortions, or make arrangements for the provision of such training. The Weldon Amendment
The Weldon Amendment - PDF was originally passed as part of the HHS appropriation and has been readopted (or incorporated by reference) in each subsequent HHS appropriations act since 2005. It provides that “ [n]one of the funds made available in this Act [making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education] may be made available to a Federal agency or program, or to a state or local government, if such agency, program, or government subjects any institutional or individual health care entity to discrimination on the basis that the health care entity does not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions.” It also defines “health care entity” to include “an individual physician or other health care professional, a hospital, a provider-sponsored organization, a health maintenance organization, a health insurance plan, or any other kind of health care facility, organization, or plan.” The Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act ( Pub. L. No. 111-148 as amended by Pub. L. No. 111-152) includes new health care provider conscience protections within the health insurance Exchange program.