42 U.S.C. § 300a–7 — Sterilization or abortion

(a) Omitted — this part of the section has been removed from the code. (b) Prohibition of public officials and public authorities from imposition of certain requirements contrary to religious beliefs or moral convictions: Receiving a grant, contract, loan, or loan guarantee under the Public Health Service Act, the Community Mental Health Centers Act, or the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act does not let any court or public official force: (1) a person to perform or help with a sterilization or abortion, if doing so would go against that person's religious beliefs or moral convictions; or (2) an organization to (A) make its facilities available for a sterilization or abortion, if the organization bans that procedure there for religious or moral reasons, or (B) provide staff to perform or help with a sterilization or abortion, if that would go against that staff member's religious beliefs or moral convictions. (c) Discrimination prohibition: (1) An organization that receives a grant, contract, loan, or loan guarantee under those same three laws, after June 18, 1973, cannot: (A) discriminate in hiring, promoting, or firing a physician or other health worker, or (B) discriminate in giving that person staff privileges, because that person performed or helped with a lawful sterilization or abortion, refused to for religious or moral reasons, or simply holds religious or moral views about sterilization or abortion. (2) An organization that receives a biomedical or behavioral research grant or contract from any program the Secretary of Health and Human Services runs, after July 12, 1974, cannot: (A) discriminate in hiring, promoting, or firing, or (B) discriminate in giving staff privileges, to a physician or other health worker because that person performed or helped with a lawful health service or research activity, refused to for religious or moral reasons, or holds religious or moral views about it. (d) Individual rights respecting certain requirements contrary to religious beliefs or moral convictions: No one has to perform or help with any part of a health service program or research activity — funded even partly by a program the Secretary of Health and Human Services runs — if doing so would go against that person's religious beliefs or moral convictions. (e) Prohibition on entities receiving Federal grant, etc., from discriminating against applicants for training or study because of refusal of applicant to participate on religious or moral grounds: An organization that receives, after September 29, 1979, a grant, contract, loan, loan guarantee, or interest subsidy under the Public Health Service Act, the Community Mental Health Centers Act, or the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 cannot deny admission to, or otherwise discriminate against, an applicant for training or study — including internship and residency applicants — because that applicant is willing, or unwilling, to counsel, suggest, recommend, assist with, or take part in abortions or sterilizations, whether that willingness or unwillingness comes from the applicant's religious beliefs or moral convictions.