The Trump administration’s new Denial of Care Rule invites any health care worker – including doctors, nurses, paramedics, administrators and even clerical staff – to deny medical treatment and services to patients because of personal religious or moral beliefs, even in life-or-death situations.

Officials with the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) have decided to drop a proposed plan to affiliate their public hospitals with a Catholic health care system after concerns were raised that such a relationship might cause patients to lose services.

Americans United in late April advised the University of California at San Francisco Board of Regents to pull out of, or alter, a proposed agreement that will subject several hospitals to religious dictates.