Prominent RCs Write To Sebelius on Conscience Protections
Recently a group of prominent Catholics released a letter to Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recommending that she amend the proposed rule on mandated health care coverage to provide for more expansive conscience protections for religious organizations. Read more.
Safe Place for Newborns
The MN-DHS recently released a new bulletin providing guidance on the Safe Place for Newborns law. Read more.
Catholic Health Association Response to Women’s Preventive Services Regulations
The following statement was being released by Sr. Carol Keehan, DC, president and chief executive office of the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA): The Catholic Health Association is both pleased and concerned by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS) recent actions on preventive services for women. Read more.
USCCB: HHS Mandate for Contraceptive and Abortifacient Drugs Violates Conscience Rights
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) sharply criticized a new HHS “preventive services” mandate requiring private health plans to cover female surgical sterilization and all drugs and devices approved by the FDA as contraceptives, including drugs which can attack a developing unborn child before and after implantation in the mother’s womb. Read more.