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===Later career===
===Later career===
Church sponsored a "conscience clause" that prohibited the government from requiring church-affiliated hospitals to perform abortions.<ref>[https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RL34703.html The History and Effect of Abortion Conscience Clause Laws]</ref> Regarding the clause to the Church Amendment, he said, "It clears up any ambiguity in the present law by making it explicitly clear that it is not the intention of Congress to mandate religious hospitals to perform operations that are contrary to deeply held religious beliefs."<ref>
Church sponsored a "conscience clause" that prohibited the government from requiring church-affiliated hospitals to perform abortions.<ref>[https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RL34703.html The History and Effect of Abortion Conscience Clause Laws]</ref> Regarding the clause to the Church Amendment, he said, "It clears up any ambiguity in the present law by making it explicitly clear that it is not the intention of Congress to mandate religious hospitals to perform operations that are contrary to deeply held religious beliefs."<ref>
See 119 Cong. Rec. 9,595 (1973) (statement of Sen. Church) at 9,600.</ref>
He ran for president in 1976, but withdrew from the race in support of [[Jimmy Carter]].
He ran for president in 1976, but withdrew from the race in support of [[Jimmy Carter]].