The Missouri Senate Committee for Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families voted do pass HB 1541, sponsored by Rep. Tim Jones (R-Eureka), which provided conscience protection for health care workers who choose not to participate in providing abortion, abortion-inducing drugs and other medical procedures. (The provisions of HB 1541 have also been added to HCS [...]
May 042012
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 132012
The Senate General Laws Committee heard testimony this week on HB 1541, sponsored by Rep. Tim Jones (R-Eureka), which would allow health care workers to opt out of participating in certain medical procedures that violate their conscience. The procedures include abortion, provision of abortion-inducing drugs, contraception, sterilization, assisted reproduction, human cloning, human embryonic research, human [...]
April 13, 2012
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On March 29, by a vote of 113-41, the Missouri House passed HB 1541, a bill sponsored by Rep. Tim Jones (R-Eureka) that provides conscience protection for health care providers. The bill would allow nurses, doctors and health care institutions the right to opt out on the basis of moral, religious or ethical concerns to [...]
By Bishop William Lori, chairman of the USCCB’s Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty Two short weeks ago, on Jan. 20, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that virtually all health plans provided by virtually all employers, including those affiliated with the Catholic Church, would now be forced to cover sterilization [...]
February 9, 2012
Abortion, Abortion-Drug Mandate, Health Care, Life Ethics, News, Religious Liberty No Responses »
Feb 082012
Download the flier here. “To refuse to take part in committing an injustice is not only a moral duty; it is also a basic human right. Were this not so, the human person would be forced to perform an action intrinsically incompatible with human dignity, and in this way human freedom itself, the authentic meaning [...]
February 8, 2012
Abortion, Abortion-Drug Mandate, Health Care, Missouri General Assembly, News 4 Responses »
On Tuesday, March 27, St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson and Dr. John L. Yeats, executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention, will join other prominent religious leaders from around the state at a Rally for Religious Liberty at the rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol building in Jefferson City. The Missouri Catholic Conference (MCC), Missouri [...]
February 7, 2012
Abortion, Abortion-Drug Mandate, Health Care, Missouri General Assembly, News, Religious Liberty 2 Responses »
Currently there are two bills going through Congress to protect conscience rights, S. 1467 and HR 1179. Both of these would protect religious employers or health plans from having to provide coverage for contraceptives, sterilization procedures or abortion-inducing drugs. Here is how the Missouri Congressional Delegates stand on these bills. Contact your congressperson and thank [...]
February 3, 2012
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Feb 032012
“Obama’s decision also reflects a certain view of liberalism. Classical liberalism was concerned with the freedom to hold and practice beliefs at odds with a public consensus. Modern liberalism uses the power of the state to impose liberal values on institutions it regards as backward. It is the difference between pluralism and anti-clericalism.” – Michael [...]
February 3, 2012
Abortion, Abortion-Drug Mandate, Health Care, Life Ethics, News, Religious Liberty 1 Response »
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