Major anti-abortion groups, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Right to Life Committee, are adamantly opposed to the legislation, preferring stricter restrictions passed last November by the House.
Keehan said in an interview that she believes the approach now in the bill would work just as well to keep federal dollars from being used to pay for abortion.
"On the moral issue of abortion, there is no disagreement," Keehan said. "On the technical issue of whether this bill prevents federal funding of abortions, we differ with Right to Life."
The current legislation would allow private insurance plans operating in a new insurance marketplace to cover abortions, provided they do not use taxpayer funds. What makes that tricky is that many of the plans' customers would be receiving federal subsidies to help pay their premiums. So the legislation requires plans offering abortion coverage to collect a separate premium from their policyholders. Those separate checks would have to be kept in a different account from money for other health care services.
Another consequence of the misfeasance of Catholic Bishops to Canonically protect the name "Catholic" so that the faithful can be free of misrepresentations that mislead souls away from salvation.
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With Sr. Keehan's remark, the Catholic Health Association should drop the word "Catholic" from their name. Everybody is allowed their own opinion but do not mix the word Catholic with the proabortionists--even if it is a "technicality."
St. Thomas More became a saint out of a technicality. All Catholics, including Sr. Keehan and all those who name themselves Catholic cannot support abortion and should be willing to die fighting against this sinful act--even if it is a technicality. Evil thrives in these technicalities.
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