U.S. Bishops Provide Resources
Explaining Flaws in Senate
Health Care Bill
Part Three of Three
By Dave Andrusko
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Earlier today the United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops
sent out an email with a bevy of
links that address various
controversies at the center of
the health care debate. I
forward this to you because I
know you want exposure to all
the best pro-life information.
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WASHINGTON--The United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)
has made available several new
resources explaining its calls
for essential changes to the
Senate health care reform bill.
In a March 15 statement,
Cardinal Francis George of
Chicago, President of the USCCB,
said that the U.S. bishops
would, regretfully, have to
oppose the final bill if these
changes were not made.
The resources are available at:
www.usccb.org/healthcare
Among them is an analysis of the
abortion funding provisions of
the Senate health care bill that
highlights the bishops'
objections (www.usccb.org/healthcare/030410facts.pdf).
Two pieces respond to recent
criticisms of the bishops'
position on the health care
bill, namely criticisms from
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost of
Washington and Lee University
Law School (www.usccb.org/healthcare/jost-response.pdf)
and the other regarding the
funding of abortion at community
health centers (www.usccb.org/healthcare/communityhealthcenters.pdf).
With so much of the health care
debate focusing on the nature of
the legal "status quo" of
federal abortion funding, the
page also features a
backgrounder on current federal
policy on abortion funding (www.usccb.org/prolife/issues/healthcare/abortion_funding_102309.pdf)
and an analysis of the House
health care bill's Stupak
Amendment (www.usccb.org/healthcare/StupakAmendmentFactsheet.pdf).
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