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Catholic Hospitals vs. Catholic Bishops?

As tense, last-minute negotiations over details of the Senate's health care bill progressed just before Christmas, one of the most fluid and contentious issues was over abortion coverage -- as it has been since the beginning. In our Dec. 18 story about Sen. Bob Casey's abortion funding amendment -- which became the basis of the compromise that Sen. Ben Nelson supported to get to 60 votes -- we noted the apparently divergent reactions to the process from Catholic groups and wondered if they "could signal an emerging division within the Catholic forces lobbying on health care." A week later, The ...

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