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“Health care workers should not be forced to compromise their beliefs because they fear workplace discrimination,” said Senator Tillis. “This legislation provides permanent legal protection for health care workers who decline to participate in or perform abortion services.”

This week, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and eight of his colleagues sent a letter to U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, calling for the committee to investigate New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 cover-up in light of news reports alleging Cuomo and his staff engaged in a cover-up of New York’s nursing home COVID-19 death toll.

Everyone knew going into this impeachment trial that it would infuriate one half of the electorate regardless of the outcome and make our nation even more polarized. I hope that the end result is short-lived, and the responsibility falls on all of us to do better. Elected officials must stop embracing and propagating dangerous and baseless conspiracy theories that undermine the faith we have in our nation and our institutions. And when we see violence, anarchy, and thuggery—regardless of whether it comes from white nationalists in the Capitol or ANTIFA in the streets of Portland and Seattle—we have an obligation to condemn it. And most importantly, we need to stop casting those who we disagree with as ‘enemies’ with evil motives and instead recognize that despite our differences we are all fellow Americans.