{"id":31762,"date":"2012-04-05T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T03:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/proposal_to_pay_for_contraceptive_cost_radically_flawed_say_us_catholic_bis\/"},"modified":"2012-04-05T03:00:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T03:00:05","slug":"proposal_to_pay_for_contraceptive_cost_radically_flawed_say_us_catholic_bis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31762","title":{"rendered":"Proposal to pay for contraceptive cost &#39;radically flawed,&#39; say US Catholic bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fundamentally, they noted, the HHS contraceptive mandate &#8220;still forces us to act against our conscience and teaching,&#8221; particularly because the new proposal does not modify the inclusion of sterilization and contraceptives, including some abortifacients, in the &#8220;preventive services&#8221; mandate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those falling outside the government definition of &#8216;religious employer&#8217; will be forced by the government to violate their own teachings within their very own institutions,&#8221; the bishops said. &#8220;Whatever funding and administrative mechanisms are ultimately chosen, it remains that many deeply religious institutions and individuals will be forbidden to provide even their own employees &#8212; or, in the case of educational institutions, their own students &#8212; with health coverage consistent with their values.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1201359.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fundamentally, they noted, the HHS contraceptive mandate &#8220;still forces us to act against our conscience and teaching,&#8221; particularly because the new proposal does not modify the inclusion of sterilization and contraceptives, including some abortifacients, in the &#8220;preventive services&#8221; mandate. &#8220;Those<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31762\">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":[39,40,50,42,513,209,104,114,96,154,151,108,364,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-americau-s-a","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31762","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=31762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}