{"id":18332,"date":"2010-03-08T11:02:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T11:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/hands_off_health_care_us_catholic_group_tells_bishops\/"},"modified":"2010-03-08T11:02:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T11:02:01","slug":"hands_off_health_care_us_catholic_group_tells_bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18332","title":{"rendered":"Hands off health care, US Catholic group tells bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US Catholic group on Friday accused Roman Catholic bishops of meddling in health care reforms by making backroom deals to ensure the bill does not allow funding for abortion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Religious and ethical concerns can legitimately inform public policy, but the bishops have overstepped the mark,&#8221; said Jon O&#8217;Brien, president of Catholics for Choice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Interference by the US Catholic bishops in health care reform does not help women. The bishops should not be allowed to use health care reform to restrict women&#8217;s access to safe and legal reproductive healthcare services,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20100305\/ts_alt_afp\/uspoliticshealthabortionchurchcatholic\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US Catholic group on Friday accused Roman Catholic bishops of meddling in health care reforms by making backroom deals to ensure the bill does not allow funding for abortion. &#8220;Religious and ethical concerns can legitimately inform public policy, but<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18332\">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":[39,40,42,513,104,617,114,96,616,154,151,667,108,364,618],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18332","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-house-of-representatives","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18332","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=18332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}