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Massachusetts Candidate Says Catholic Workers Should Stay Out of Emergency Rooms

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Revealing how she feels about conscience protection in health care reform, Attorney General Martha Coakley, a Democrat running in a special election to replace Sen. Ed. Kennedy in the U.S. Senate, says Catholics who believe in Church teaching and who value their religious freedom shouldn’t work in an emergency room.

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U.S. Bishops Ask Parishes to Help Stop Abortion Funding in Health Care Reform

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist The U.S. Bishops are once again sending out bulletin inserts and pulpit announcements to the nation’s parishes with the hopes of inspiring to Catholics to become active in the effort to prevent health care reform from advancing a pro-abortion agenda.

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Kennedy’s Letter to Pope Offers No Apologies

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Writer In a letter written to Pope Benedict XVI only months before his death and hand-delivered by President Barack Obama during his July 2009 audience at the Vatican, the late Sen. Edward Kennedy acknowledges his human failures but offers no apology for his career-long support for abortion rights.

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Government To Force Catholic College to Defy Church Teaching

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Writer The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has ruled that a small Catholic college must include coverage for artificial contraceptives in its employee health insurance plan, raising new concerns about the need for conscience protections and religious exemptions in America’s health care policies.

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Official says Obama’s “Robust” Conscience Protection Promise is Phony

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Writer Even though President Barack Obama promised a “robust” conscience clause protecting health care workers, a former official of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says his $635 billion off-budget reserve fund includes principles that will deny health providers the freedom to choose not to kill unborn babies through abortion.

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Obama to Rescind Conscience Protections

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Writer The Obama administration has announced plans to rescind President Bush’s recently enacted job protections for health care workers who refuse to provide care they find objectionable for reasons of conscience. Even though the administration made the announcement quietly, a political fire storm has already erupted over the plans.

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Catholic League Urges Bush to Act Fast on New Conscience Protection Laws

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Writer Catholic League president Bill Donohue is urging the Bush Administration to move quickly to put in place new regulations that protect the conscious rights of health care workers before the radical pro-abortion policies of president-elect Obama administration and Congress make it impossible for Catholic health care facilities to remain open.

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