Bishops Urge Senate to Adopt Roy Blunt’s Birth Control Bill

[gilliam]

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops urged the Senate today to adopt legislation sponsored by Sen. Roy Blunt that would essentially block the Obama administration’s new contraception rule.

The Missouri Republican’s bill, which he has sought to attach to a transportation bill making its way through the Senate, would allow employers to opt out of a rule requiring insurance plans to include contraception coverage for women if they have moral objections

rollcall.com/news/bishops_urge_senate_adopt_roy_blunt_birth_control_bill-212466-1.html?pos=hln

More information here

usccb.org/news/2012/12-029.cfm

 

[rlg94086]

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops urged the Senate today to adopt legislation sponsored by Sen. Roy Blunt that would essentially block the Obama administration’s new contraception rule.

The Missouri Republican’s bill, which he has sought to attach to a transportation bill making its way through the Senate, would allow employers to opt out of a rule requiring insurance plans to include contraception coverage for women if they have moral objections

rollcall.com/news/bishops_urge_senate_adopt_roy_blunt_birth_control_bill-212466-1.html?pos=hln

More information here

usccb.org/news/2012/12-029.cfm

From the Roll Call article:

Although a number of Catholic health organizations and institutions have backed a compromise announced by President Barack Obama allowing organizations affiliated with the church to not pay for such coverage, the extremely conservative Conference of Catholic Bishops has not been swayed.



I’m wondering if the reporter referred to them that way when the Bishops supported Obamacare, in principle, during its crafting, or when they have spoken out in favor of humane immigration reform.

 

[incense]

Obviously using the language of the Democrats, since it only listed contraception and not abortion drugs or sterilization.

 

[JimG]

From the Roll Call article:

Although a number of Catholic health organizations and institutions have backed a compromise announced by President Barack Obama allowing organizations affiliated with the church to not pay for such coverage, the extremely conservative Conference of Catholic Bishops has not been swayed.



I’m wondering if the reporter referred to them that way when the Bishops supported Obamacare, in principle, during its crafting, or when they have spoken out in favor of humane immigration reform.

The USCCB is most assuredly not particularly a politically conservative body. There may be a few bishops on the “conservative” side of the political spectrum, but not many.

As a whole, they are not even thinking about conservatism.
But they know when their religious freedom is being threatened.

 

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The USCCB is most assuredly not particularly a politically conservative body. There may be a few bishops on the “conservative” side of the political spectrum, but not many.

As a whole, they are not even thinking about conservatism.
But they know when their religious freedom is being threatened.

Exactly. That’s why I was rolling on the floor…