The Biden Administration’s Department Health and Human Services (HHS) has confirmed that it plans to eliminate a policy implemented during the Trump Administration that allows healthcare workers to cite religious or moral beliefs when seeking exemptions from performing certain acts in the line of duty.

According to Politico, a spokesperson for HHS said that “we are in the rulemaking process” when it comes to the policy in question. The conscience exemption, first announced in 2018 and fully implemented in 2019, allows medical professionals to refuse to perform certain operations, including abortions and “gender transition” surgeries, if such acts violate their moral or religious values.

The decision was celebrated by far-left pro-abortion groups that had previously sued the Trump Administration over the rule in question. Leila Abolfazli, spokeswoman for the National Women’s Law Center, said “there is so much to unravel,” and that she was “encouraged that they have been working through all these pieces.”