Crooks & Liars - Catholic Hospitals: We're Okay With Health-Care Compromise

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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Catholic Hospitals: We're Okay With Health-Care Compromise
By Susie Madrak Saturday Dec 26, 2009 4:30pm

So this could be an important break in this impasse - assuming the Vatican doesn't get involved, that is. Completely aside from the still-stunning concept that some theologies are enshrined in legislation controlling women, that is:

WASHINGTON — In an apparent split with Roman Catholic bishops over the abortion-financing provisions of the proposed health care overhaul, the nation’s Catholic hospitals have signaled that they back the Senate’s compromise on the issue, raising hopes of breaking an impasse in Congress and stirring controversy within the church.

The Senate bill, approved Thursday morning, allows any state to bar the use of federal subsidies for insurance plans that cover abortion and requires insurers in other states to divide subsidy money into separate accounts so that only dollars from private premiums would be used to pay for abortions.

Just days before the bill passed, the Catholic Health Association, which represents hundreds of Catholic hospitals across the country, said in a statement that it was “encouraged” and “increasingly confident” that such a compromise “can achieve the objective of no federal funding for abortion.” An umbrella group for nuns followed its lead.

The same day, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called the proposed compromise “morally unacceptable.”

[juno jones]

1. Of course they're OK with it.

And birth control can continue to not be discussed in their hallowed moral halls as well. And poor women who are dependant on catholic services for pre-natal care and childbirth will continue getting less than optimal care.