People are seen outside New York City Hall in Manhattan during a protest against mandating COVID-19 vaccines Aug. 16, 2021. (Credit: Jeenah Moon/Reuters via CNS.) Listen NEW YORK – While Pope Francis, ...

Orion Hower is waiting until they move to Michigan for college before seeking mental health care. Hower, who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, has been in the mental health care system since ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois law has for more than four decades protected those who oppose providing or receiving medical treatment because of their religious beliefs. Now Democrats ...

Last week, Ohio Republican Gov. Mark DeWine signed Ohio's budget into law with a controversial "conscience clause" intact. This provision gives medical practitioners the freedom to refuse medical ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A new Ohio law that would let doctors and nurses refuse to treat people on the basis of “moral, ethical or religious beliefs” is unnecessary, public health experts say. The so-called ...

In a divisive vote pitting precautionary public health measures against personal liberties, Illinois lawmakers last month narrowly passed a measure intended to prevent a decades-old state law from ...