A caregiver assists a woman with a disability. Under a new federal rule, personal care attendants are considered health care workers and have broader rights to refuse to provide services that go against their beliefs. (Courtney Hergesheimer/The Columbus Dispatch/TNS)

Some in the disability community have warned that the Trump administration’s new “conscience rule,” which enables medical staff and health care entities to refuse service to individuals they object to on moral or religious grounds, could adversely affect people with disabilities. Their chief concern is that the rule covers not only physicians, nurses and pharmacists but also positions such as home health care providers and ambulance drivers, who provide services that many individuals need to survive.