Under current Missouri law, an individual can morally object to contraceptive coverage but not to coverage for surgical abortions. Abortion coverage is supposed to be paid for by an optional rider, but if the employer decides to pay for the abortion coverage in the company’s group plan, then the employee is paying for that coverage [...]
This year’s session of the Missouri General Assembly ends at 6 p.m. Friday, May 18. Insurance lobbyists and the abortion industry are doing all they can to delay consideration of SB 749 – the religious liberty bill. Click here to read the MCC Action Alert. SB 749, however, keeps inching forward. This week the House [...]
The Health Insurance Committee of the Missouri House is set to act on SB 749 next Tuesday, May 8. Committee Chair Chris Molendorp (R-Raymore) plans to present a House Committee Substitute (HCS) for the bill that will require health insurance carriers to write policies, upon request, that exclude coverage for abortion drugs, contraceptives and sterilization [...]
Apr 262012
Bishop John Gaydos of the Diocese of Jefferson City asked members of the Missouri House Health Insurance Committee to support a bill that would defend conscience rights in health plans by ensuring that insurance companies will, upon request, write policies that exclude abortion drugs, contraceptives and sterilization procedures. “To put it simply, no person should [...]
April 26, 2012
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Apr 172012
The 18th-century British statesman Edmund Burke once astutely observed: “The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.” The delusion offered by the Obama Administration is that you can get something (in this case contraceptives) for free, with no cost to yourself. In fact, the cost is very high: we are asked to [...]
Apr 172012
By Tyler McClay, general counsel for the MCC President Obama’s so-called “accommodation” on the HHS contraceptive mandate changes nothing. Catholic-affiliated hospitals, charities, universities and schools are still going to be required to provide contraception, sterilization and potentially abortion-inducing emergency contraception in their health plans. Saying that the institution’s insurance company will pay for the offending [...]
In 1948, Britain’s National Health Insurance (NHS) went into operation. It provided free and universal health care to all Britons. Today, Britain’s per person spending on health care is one of the lowest among industrialized nations. Such a single-payer system is the Holy Grail of many American progressives, who are critical of the new Patient [...]
Apr 172012
By Mike Hoey, executive director of the Missouri Catholic Conference After the Rally for Religious Liberty on March 27, I was making my way through a sea of red on the second floor of the Missouri State Capitol when an angry man accosted me and bitterly denounced the bishops for caving in to Obama. I [...]
Mar 292012
To watch videos of the Rally for Religious Liberty, click the links below. These links will take you to Conservative TV Online’s website. These are high-resolution videos. If you are using a slower Internet connection, use the low-resolution video link provided on CTV’s website below the original video. DISCLAIMER: The MCC does not endorse, nor [...]
March 29, 2012
Abortion-Drug Mandate, Missouri General Assembly, News, Religious Liberty No Responses »
On Tuesday, thousands of people of faith joined together to protest the HHS mandate that forces employers to pay for coverage for contraceptives, abortion drugs and sterilization procedures. Attendees wore red to show their support for conscience rights legislation currently pending in the Missouri General Assembly. Although the event was on the first floor, an [...]
March 28, 2012
Abortion-Drug Mandate, Missouri General Assembly, News, Religious Liberty 4 Responses »
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