'This administration has a hard time following the law, and now they are trying to have their appointed bureaucrats mandate that hospitals and emergency medicine physicians perform abortions,' Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said.
The statement came just days after the U.S. Supreme Court returned the right to regulate abortion back to the states. Many states have since heavily restricted abortion within their borders.
A proposed rule from the Biden administration ‘would abandon health care professionals to being forced to perform medical procedures that directly violate their religious beliefs or risk losing their jobs,’ ADF Senior Counsel Matt Bowman warned.
The announcement was met with derision by conservatives, with Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh declaring that the Biden administration is the ‘most disgraceful and deranged … in American history.’