Trump’s Former Chief of HHS’ Office of Civil Rights Explains His Lawsuit Against the Biden Administration ncregister.com

Roger Severino, the outgoing director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Civil Rights, stepped down from his high-profile role last month, after launching a new division dedicated to the protection of conscience rights and religious freedom.

A Catholic pro-life lawyer, Severino is OCR’s longest-serving director in the past three decades and sparked headlines as his office took up cases, like one involving a Vermont hospital that allegedly forced a nurse to participate in an abortion against her beliefs.

Severino also clashed with California Attorney General Xavier Becerra over issues like the Trump administration’s rollback of President Barack Obama’s gender-transition mandate and the state’s alleged violation of the Weldon Amendment, a federal statute that is designed to protect the conscience rights of health-care providers…

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