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In the United States, Catholic institutions often invoke their legal right to refuse to provide
treatments that do not align with Catholic values. The authors of this article contend that …

Gender‐affirming care is treatment that recognizes and affirms the gender identity of
transgender and gender‐diverse (TGD) individuals. Though not all TGD people choose to …

Protective behaviors such as mask wearing and physical distancing are critical to slow the
spread of COVID-19, even in the context of vaccine scale-up. Understanding the variation in …

No-cost contraceptive provisions as in the Affordable Care Act have substantially reduced
the financial burdens that patients previously faced with long-acting reversible contraception …

Abstract Objective Catholic Religious and Ethical Directives restrict access to contraception;
yet offering contraception during a delivery hospitalization facilitates birth spacing and is a …

Background Previous studies have shown that many women who would seek care at
Catholic hospitals are unaware of the hospital's religious affiliation. Furthermore, women …

Objectives Postpartum tubal ligation provides demonstrated benefits to women, but access
to this procedure is threatened by restrictions at Catholic healthcare institutions. We aimed to …

Hospital Mergers and Conscience-Based Objections Regulations from the Office for Civil
Rights, along with consolidation of hospitals into organizations that assert conscience-based …

This qualitative study reports how 20 spiritual care leaders provided leadership in the early
months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The patterns and themes that emerged centered around …