The Trump administration has sent a notice to a Vermont hospital after an investigation found that it had forced a nurse to help with an abortion, a procedure that went against her conscience.
The Catholic nurse filed a conscience and religious discrimination complaint to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against her employer, the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC), in May of last year. An investigation was launched and concluded that the hospital had knowingly assigned the nurse to the elective abortion procedure and forced her to assist with it despite her religious and moral objections, according to a department statement on Aug. 28.
