{"id":28061,"date":"2011-09-05T00:31:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T00:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/us_roman_catholic_bishops_blast_plan_to_force_abortions_into_insurance\/"},"modified":"2011-09-05T00:31:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T00:31:32","slug":"us_roman_catholic_bishops_blast_plan_to_force_abortions_into_insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28061","title":{"rendered":"(Zenit) US Roman Catholic Bishops Blast Plan to Force Abortions Into Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. bishops are objecting to a Health and Human Services mandate that will force private insurance plans to cover abortions and sterilizations, with an exemption for religions so narrow that not even Jesus would qualify.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to the HHS today, Anthony Picarello, USCCB general counsel, and Michael Moses, associate general counsel, called the mandate an &#8220;unprecedented attack on religious liberty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The mandate would force private insurance plans to cover contraception &#8212; including abortifacients &#8212; and sterilization.<\/p>\n<p>And the narrow &#8220;religious employer&#8221; exception provides &#8220;no protection at all for individuals or insurers with a moral or religious objection to contraceptives or sterilization,&#8221; instead covering only &#8220;a very small subset of religious employers,&#8221; the bishops&#8217; representatives declared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/article-33329?l=english\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. bishops are objecting to a Health and Human Services mandate that will force private insurance plans to cover abortions and sterilizations, with an exemption for religions so narrow that not even Jesus would qualify. In a statement to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28061\">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":[39,42,513,104,114,96,154,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28061","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=28061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}