By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
At least two U.S. bishops have taken action against a women’s religious community and the Catholic Health Association for publicly expressing support for pro-abortion ObamaCare in defiance of the stated position of the U.S. Conference of Bishops.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Public anger over passage of the unpopular health care reform bill continues to rise with more and more lawmakers reporting serious threats being made against themselves and their families.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
After a long and bruising battle to excise abortion funding from ObamaCare, an effort that ended in a disappointing capitulation to the White House, the man who could have prevented passage of the bill is said to be considering retirement.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A leading lawmaker in the U.S. House is investigating and is planning to make public all of the legislative deals made by the White House and Congressional leadership with special interest groups in the effort to win support for ObamaCare.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has discovered that the same provision to expand taxpayer funding of contraception and abortion that was removed from the stimulus bill due to citizen outrage, has been inserted into the new health care reform bill.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A nationwide doctors group has become the first U.S. medical association to file a lawsuit against ObamaCare, which it says violates the Fifth and Tenth Amendments, the Commerce Clause and provisions authorizing taxation.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
State legislators in more than a dozen states are looking to pass legislation that will enable them to opt-out of the abortion funding mandate in the recently passed health care reform bill.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In an op-ed appearing in the
Washington Post, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), who shocked the pro-life community by agreeing to vote yes on the pro-abortion health care reform bill in exchange for an executive order from President Obama, said he made the deal because he believed the reform bill would have passed anyway and would have been worse for the unborn without the last minute deal.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a column written just after the House passed “the terribly deficient Senate Bill”, Wisconsin Bishop Robert C. Morlino blasts the Catholic Health Association, NETWORK, Nancy Pelosi and other “Catholic” Democrats who not only defied the Church’s position on health care but also confused the public about who speaks for the Church in important civic debates.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A wave of violence has broken out across the country as citizens vent their anger against lawmakers who participated in the passage of the enormously unpopular health care reform bill.
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