{"id":426276,"date":"2010-03-14T09:48:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T13:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=72839"},"modified":"2010-03-14T09:48:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T13:48:31","slug":"catholic-hospitals-back-health-care-bill-reject-stupak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/426276","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Hospitals Back Health Care Bill, Reject Stupak"},"content":{"rendered":"
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photo: Dustin and Jenae via Flickr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In a move that could bolster efforts to pass the health care bill, the Catholic Health Association, representing more than 600 Catholic hospitals, endorsed the measure<\/a> today, rejecting the claims from anti-choice groups that it would publicly fund abortions.<\/p>\n

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The chief executive of the Catholic Health Association, Carol Keehan, wrote on the group’s Web site that although the legislation isn’t perfect, it represents a “major first step” toward covering all Americans and would make “great improvements” for millions of people. The more than 600 Catholic hospitals across the country do not provide abortions as a matter of conscience […]<\/p>\n

Keehan said in an interview that she believes the approach now in the bill would work just as well to keep federal dollars from being used to pay for abortion.<\/p>\n

“On the moral issue of abortion, there is no disagreement,” Keehan said. “On the technical issue of whether this bill prevents federal funding of abortions, we differ with Right to Life.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There’s a good reason for Catholic hospitals to support the Senate language – they happen to be correct about it restricting abortion funding, and actually exptends beyond the Hyde Amendment<\/a> in ways that could have a chilling effect on private coverage of abortion services. <\/span>Bart Stupak’s language would clearly accelerate that process, but the Nelson compromise does offer an array of restrictions, including a state opt-out for abortion coverage on the exchange.<\/p>\n

So the Catholic hospitals are apparently taking their win. So are these anti-choice pastors and evangelical leaders<\/a>. And together they provide cover for members in the Stupak bloc to split off and support the bill. Stupak seems to have a core of a half-dozen holdouts. That may shrink even further with these developments.<\/p>\n

Tags: Catholic Health Association<\/a>, Catholic hospitals<\/a>, health care reform<\/a>, Hyde Amendment<\/a>, Pitts-Stupak Amendment<\/a><\/p>\n

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