Bishops Take Action Against Errant Nuns

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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Rep. Bart Stupak Said to be Considering Retirement

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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Special Deals in ObamaCare to be Made Public

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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More Abortion Funding Found in ObamaCare

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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Doctors Group Sues ObamaCare

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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Bart Stupak Publishes Defense of His Vote

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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Madison Bishop Blasts “Catholics” Who Misrepresented Church During Health Care Debate

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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