Part of the reason for the demand is because of what’s happening in California.Posted on 11/22/2014 8:36:17 AM PST by NYer
The nation’s Catholic bishops are so upset about taxpayer funding of abortions in Obamacare they are urging a shutdown of the federal government so the issue can be addressed.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has issued a letter to members of Congress advocating adding language to the “must-pass funding legislation” such as the continuing resolution Congress is expected to approve soon to fund the federal government until the next session of Congress that would stop abortion funding under Obamacare. If such language is not approve, the bishops say members of Congress should balk at approving the continuing resolution and just let the government shut down.
Part of the reason for the demand is because of what’s happening in California.
To the dismay of California’s people of faith, the California Department of Managed Health Care has reclassified abortion as a “basic health service” under the Affordable Care Act and ordered all insurance plans in the state to begin covering surgical abortions immediately. Even churches are not exempt from funding abortions.
“Forcing a church to be party to elective abortion is one of the utmost-imaginable assaults on our most fundamental American freedoms,” said ADF Senior Counsel Casey Mattox. “California is flagrantly violating the federal law that protects employers from being forced into having abortion in their health insurance plans. No state can blatantly ignore federal law and think that it should continue to receive taxpayer money.”
Alliance Defending Freedom has filed suit for a number of churches.
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CNS News has more on what the USCCB is seeking by the December 11 deadline:
The bishops sent a letter Monday asking Congress to incorporate “without delay” in must-pass legislation the protections of the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act (ANDA) into must-pass legislation, such as the continuing resolution.
The letter was signed by Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, chair of USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, who is chair of the Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty.
The bishops cited recent demands by California’s Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) that “all health plans under its jurisdiction include elective abortions, including late-term abortions,” with no religious or moral exemptions allowed.
They brought up the emergence of similar proposals in Washington and other states, emphasizing “the increasingly urgent need for Congress to protect rights of conscience with regard to the taking of innocent human life.”
The California DMHC’s demands violate existing federal law, they noted, citing the longstanding Weldon Amendment, approved by Congress every year since 2004, which “forbids governmental bodies receiving federal funds from discriminating against those who decline to take part in abortion or abortion coverage.”
However, the bishops pointed out that the Weldon Amendment lacks an effective means of enforcement and has been subject to legal challenges as “its only stated penalty is the withdrawal of all Labor/HHS funds from a governmental body – a penalty California officials believe is subject to legal challenge and is too sweeping to ever be invoked.”
“The solution to this problem is legislation already approved by the House as long ago as 2002, the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act (ANDA),” the bishops conclude.
Ping!
I agree.
CRUSADER$ !!!
I support this!!!!!!!!!!!
Irony of Ironies! CC is notorious for legalizing UAC’s and any and all IA’s to come across the border. The dependency rate for the Bishops Migration runs in the 90% for Fed grants. I will support their defunding effort if they will support mine in DEFUNDING ALL FAITH-BASED REFUGEE MIGRANT SERVICES based on the executive orders via agency in the Wilberforce Act and loose language in the public assistance clause under the US Attorney General.
I agree but don’t hold your breath.
How about excommunicating Catholic politicians who are pro-abortion. O’Malley presided over Fat Ted’s funeral...hypocrisy to say the least.
**The bishops cited recent demands by California’s Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) that “all health plans under its jurisdiction include elective abortions, including late-term abortions,” with no religious or moral exemptions allowed.**
The straw that broke the camel’s back?
the reason we have Obamacare is because of the indifference among the clergy and diocesan employees.
Upstate NY Christians of all stripes gave Pelosi 2 of the final votes she needed ... Murphy NY-19 and Owens NY-23 ... plus Catholics all over the country who sat down in the fall of 2008.
More? 90% of church-going Catholics stayed home in CT’s August primaries ... this after Obamacare, CT Gay Marriage, Transgender statutes passed in CT, and Assisted Suicide Legislation. They do not react with alarm and justice ... but, rather, they tune it all out. The worse it gets, the more cynical they become.
“The Sin of Cynicism”
“Cynicism is a sin. It is a lack of faith in the human soul to be good. Cynicism is based on unrealistic expectations of others, or society in general.”
http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-sin-of-cynicism.html
qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent.
The USCCB made it clear that they fully supported 0bamacare from the beginning, the only reservation concerned abortion and contraception. How they believed the government could assume a dictatorial control of insurance programs so complete that literally millions of people would lose their coverage, and that yet somehow the Left would fail to advance its death culture is a complete mystery.
“Rather than joining efforts to support or oppose the repeal of the recently enacted health care law, we will continue to devote our efforts to correcting serious moral problems in the current law, so health care reform can truly be life-affirming for all,” [Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, head of the Bishops' pro-life outreach.]
Elections have consequences.
Indeed. The Progressive movement is by its very nature both utilitarian and totalitarian. It's a package. The bishops are mistaken if they believe they can be cafeteria progressives.
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As a regular attending Catholic blank you USCCB. You luv ObamaCare, except for the abortion funding, and Obama shredding the Constitution for amnesty. You get zero support from me calling for the gov’t to shutdown over abortion funding. How about supporting a shutdown to protect the Constitution that protects your freedom of religion.
Hey don’t make us pay for abortions, but let those who want to make us pay for abortion receive communion!!! Wheee!
The hypocrisy is enough to make one sick.
Ignoring those who promoted and voted for Obamacare, including the contraception and abortion provisions, then pretending the problem is Obamacare becoming law isn't only hypocrisy it's irrationality.
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