Tag: HHS mandate
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Why Catholics Will Not Get Abortion Out of the Health Care Bill
Deal W. Hudson Published August 3, 2009 The Congress and the White House have little to fear from the bishops’ official statements opposing the abortion provisions in the health care bill. Unlike with President Barack Obama’s appearance at Notre Dame, there is no chorus of bishops’ voices rising in protest against the bill; most of…
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Abortion, Healthcare, and the President’s Priorities
Deal W. Hudson Published November 16, 2009 Two days after the Stupak-Pitts Amendment passed, President Barack Obama made a statement that appeared to accept a ban on abortion funding in health care reform. “I laid out a very simple principle, which is, this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill, and we’re not…
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To Bart Stupak, On the Eve of Battle
Deal W. Hudson Published December 21, 2009 Dear Representative Stupak, Your statement on Saturday following the decision of Sen. Ben Nelson to support the Senate health-care bill was a great relief to millions of Catholics in this country. Your comment that “the Senate abortion language is not acceptable” provided moral and religious clarity at a…
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Interpreting Bart Stupak
Deal W. Hudson Published December 28, 2009 In 1917, Wallace Stevens published “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” a poem now firmly ensconced in every anthology of American poetry. Generations of students have read it as a lesson in perspectivism – how the imagination can see the same thing under a variety of guises. Bart…
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Exposing Biden’s Lie About the HHS Mandate
Deal W. Hudson Published October 16, 2012 It was hard to get much done on Friday due to the flurry of phone calls, emails, and texts concerning the USCCB statement about Thursday night’s vice presidential debate. Everyone was asking the same thing, “Where is Biden’s name? It’s not there!” In case you missed the debate,…
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