{"id":16805,"date":"2009-12-21T00:30:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T00:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cardinal_casey_proposal_doesnt_fix_senate_health_bill_on_abortion\/"},"modified":"2009-12-21T00:30:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T00:30:52","slug":"cardinal_casey_proposal_doesnt_fix_senate_health_bill_on_abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16805","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal: Casey proposal doesn&#39;t fix Senate health bill on abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While welcoming a &#8220;good-faith effort&#8221; by Sen. Robert Casey to improve the treatment of abortion in the Senate&#8217;s health reform legislation, the chairman of the U.S. bishops&#8217; Committee on Pro-Life Activities said a &#8220;fundamental problem&#8221; remains that makes the bill morally unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston said the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops would continue to oppose the Senate legislation &#8220;unless and until&#8221; it is amended to &#8220;comply with long-standing Hyde restrictions on federal funding of elective abortions and health plans that include them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Casey, a Catholic Democrat from Pennsylvania, has proposed language that he says would permit individuals to opt out of abortion coverage in any policy offered in a health-care exchange and would require segregation of funds in the exchange so that federal subsidies are not used to pay for abortions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/0905607.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While welcoming a &#8220;good-faith effort&#8221; by Sen. Robert Casey to improve the treatment of abortion in the Senate&#8217;s health reform legislation, the chairman of the U.S. bishops&#8217; Committee on Pro-Life Activities said a &#8220;fundamental problem&#8221; remains that makes the bill<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16805\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,513,104,96,154,151,108,364,618],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-health-medicine","category-life-ethics","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}