Connecticut has joined nearly two dozen states in suing to enjoin and overturn a Department of Health and Human Services rule allowing medical providers to deny health care coverage based on religious and ethical beliefs.

The “Final Conscience Rule,” which allows health care facilities to avoid paying for certain services such as abortion and sterilization based on religious or moral objections, has been called discriminatory and “ethically dubious and wrong” by Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, who said it “must be overturned” in a statement released jointly Tuesday with state Attorney General William Tong.

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