Posted on 11/25/2017 6:41:55 PM PST by marshmallow
NOTRE DAME, IN — Last week we reported how Notre Dame has decided to do voluntarily precisely what it insisted to the courts repeatedly it could not do in good conscience — allow its health care contractors to provide free abortifacients and contraceptives to its students and employees. We return to this below. But first, we disclose a change that the university is making respecting abortion in its Flexible Spending Account (FSA) plan for employees that is even more serious.
Under the Notre Dame plan, an employee may contribute up to $2,600.00 a year to the FSA account and receive from it reimbursement for qualified medical expenses. Those contributions are not taxed as income to the employee, and “an employer may limit which expenses are allowable under their FSA plan offering.”
Notre Dame currently excludes “abortion, oral contraceptives, contraceptive devices, contraceptive implants, and voluntary sterilization.”
But next year Notre Dame is including them all — abortions, sterilizations, and contraceptives.
It is not doing it so anyone would notice. The plan description simply says, in the midst of a mass of detail:
Starting January 1st 2018, IRS guidelines as outlined in Pub 502 (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p502.pdf) will be used to dictate what is a qualified medical or dental expense for flex reimbursement.
Abortion, along with sterilization and prescription contraceptives, is specifically listed in Publication 502. Thus Notre Dame is, obviously quite deliberately, making available to employees cut-rate surgical abortions as well as sterilizations.
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Shame on them.
No gender reassignment stuff?
That's just....racist!
Sadly very few "Catholic" colleges exist.
Franciscan and Ave Maria are 2 that I can think of off the top of my scrambled brain.
Book by Michael Jones...Is Notre Dame still Catholic...Written in 1986!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Notre Dame
going down the drain.
I don’t care if John Jenkins is president. Just De-Frock him and expel him from the CSC (Holy Cross Brothers).
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