In an effort to prevent the Department of Health and Human Services' birth control mandate from going into effect on August 1, the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) has filed an emergency motion asking a federal district judge to stop the rule that would force most employers to cover birth control in their employee health plan with no co-pay.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Whenever a public figure wants the press to bury a story, they make their announcements on a Friday, and this is precisely what the infamous president of the Catholic Health Association (CHA), Sr. Carol Keehan, did last week when announcing on Friday that she no longer supports the controversial birth control mandate.
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Religious leaders from across all denominations signed onto a letter addressed to the Secretary of the Department Health and Human Services (HHS) expressing concern over the department's creation of a "two-class concept of religious organizations" in its birth control mandate that affords unequal religious freedom protections to faith-based organizations.
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During an interview on
Fox News Sunday, Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington DC scuttled rumors of dissension in the ranks of U.S. bishops regarding the recently filed lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama's birth control mandate.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In what many are calling a deliberate act of censorship, the mainstream media has almost completely ignored news of the 43 Catholic dioceses and organizations that are suing the Obama Administration over its birth control mandate.
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A total of 43 dioceses, hospitals, schools and church agencies filed 12 lawsuits across the country today, charging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' birth control mandate with being a violation of religious freedom.
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Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio announced this week that it is being forced to end their student health insurance program because of the Obama administration's rule mandating coverage for contraception, and because of the added costs of other provisions in the Affordable Care Act.
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Comments submitted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by the General Counsel of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on the controversial birth control mandate say the rules still force religious employers to provide services they find morally objectionable, and urge the administration to resolve "in favor of more, not less, religious freedom."
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In anticipation of the United States Supreme Court’s ruling on the constitutionality of Obama Care, tens of thousands of Americans will take to the streets on Friday, June 8, in a second public protest against the Obama administration’s birth control mandate.
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The first round of public comments on the administration's proposed HHS mandate have been released by the federal website and show overwhelming opposition to the anti-conscience rule.
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