{"id":32803,"date":"2012-05-31T16:58:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T16:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/r-_catholic_bishops_defend_legal_strategy_as_hhs_mandate_emerges_as_electio\/"},"modified":"2012-05-31T16:58:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T16:58:59","slug":"r-_catholic_bishops_defend_legal_strategy_as_hhs_mandate_emerges_as_electio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32803","title":{"rendered":"R. Catholic Bishops Defend Legal Strategy as HHS Mandate Emerges as Election-Year Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last September, the U.S. bishops struggled to raise awareness about an \u201cinterim final rule\u201d\u009d for co-pay-free contraception, approved by the Obama administration in August 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in the wake of 43 Catholic groups filing 12 lawsuits across the nation on May 21, recent polling confirms that the controversial federal rule, approved Jan. 20, has emerged as an election issue. Public opposition has mounted against the controversial rule, while partisan forces and their media allies argue that Catholic leaders are \u201ccarrying water\u201d\u009d for the GOP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/daily-news\/bishops-defend-legal-strategy-as-hhs-mandate-emerges-as-election-year-issue\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last September, the U.S. bishops struggled to raise awareness about an \u201cinterim final rule\u201d\u009d for co-pay-free contraception, approved by the Obama administration in August 2011. Now, in the wake of 43 Catholic groups filing 12 lawsuits across the nation on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32803\">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":[39,40,42,513,101,104,114,96,616,154,151,108,364,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32803","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-children","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-office-of-the-president","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\/32803","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=32803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}