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Published: 11/19/08

Bush Seeks to Protect Abortion Foes in Proposed Health Care Rules

By  Mark Impomeni - Politics Daily
Bush Seeks to Protect Abortion Foes in Proposed Health Care Rules

In what will likely turn out to be one of its last official acts, the Bush Administration is finalizing rules that would protect health care workers and providers who object to abortion and contraception services on religious or moral grounds. The proposed rules, to be issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, would prevent any federally funded hospital or clinic from discriminating against doctors, nurses, pharmacists, or other health care workers who refuse to perform or assist in abortion, sterilization, or contraceptive procedures due to their conscientious objections. In ...

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Published: 11/12/08

Bishops Vow to Fight Obama Abortion Agenda

By  Mark Impomeni - Politics Daily
Bishops Vow to Fight Obama Abortion Agenda

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, meeting this week in Baltimore, took steps to mount an unprecedented campaign against a signature initiative of a major political party, vowing to aggressively oppose President-elect Obama and the Democrats in their efforts to pass the Freedom of Choice Act. The bill, sponsored by California Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and which Obama said would be among the first pieces of legislation he would sign if elected, would eliminate all conditions placed on access to abortions in the United States. It would also invalidate every state law designed to reduce ...

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