How religious refusal laws embed Christian Nationalism into our health care system.

Our country has a web of laws that purport to protect health care providers who deny care based on personal religious beliefs, not what’s best for patients. These religious-refusal laws lead to dangerous outcomes for people seeking care, but that’s not the only harm they cause. They encourage discrimination against women, LGBTQ+ people, and others who have historically been shut out of the political process and weaken civil rights laws by favoring the rights of people with religious objections over the rights of everyone else. By imposing a religious hierarchy onto our health care system, religious-refusal laws play an integral role in establishing a white Christian Nationalist legal structure that threatens our multicultural, pluralistic democracy.