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January 28, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — In the last days of President Donald Trump’s term, his administration proposed a new rule to assure medical protection for babies born prematurely or with disabilities.
The rule, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on January 15, would prevent hospitals from denying emergency screenings or care to disabled babies whose parents consent to treatment, citing federal law. For that to happen, however, it would need to be enforced by the pro-abortion Biden administration, which is unlikely.
It also would bar healthcare providers from “basing certain life and death medical decisions on evaluations of the relative worth of the life a patient” and from “steering patients toward withdrawal of life-saving or life-sustaining care,” HHS said in a press release.
The agency’s proposed rule follows an executive order signed by Trump last fall, titled “Protecting Vulnerable Newborn and Infant Children.” The order bans hospitals from refusing live-saving treatment to disabled or premature babies, which some still do in spite of federal antidiscrimination protections.
“[The HHS Office for Civil Rights] has received multiple complaints
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