Bishops say new U.S. regulations ‘advance an ideological view of sex’

NEW YORK – While recent health care related non-discrimination regulations implemented by the Biden administration don’t include an abortion mandate as the U.S. bishops feared, they’ve taken issue with how the regulations advance an “ideological view of sex.”

The Department of Health and Human Services on April 26 published a final rule to nondiscrimination provisions of the Affordable Care Act, known as Section 1557, adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the definition of discrimination on the basis of sex.