NEW YORK – While the Biden administration’s recent healthcare-based discrimination regulations don’t include an abortion mandate as the US bishops had feared, they’ve criticised how the regulations advance an “ideological view of sex”.

The Department of Health and Human Services on 26 April published a final rule on non-discrimination provisions – known as Section 1557 – of the Affordable Care Act, adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the definition of discrimination on the basis of sex.