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Shh: NY Catholic Church Quietly Paying for Birth Control, Abortions
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Tracie Egan Morrissey
Today 12:30pm
The New York Archdiocese is suing the federal government to stop the mandate that employer-paid insurance policies must cover birth control, with Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York leading the fight claiming that it is unconstitutional to force the church to fund "such morally illicit activities." But it turns out the Archdiocese of NY has been quietly paying for such coverage — even abortions — for over a decade. The Catholic Church are hypocrites!? Imagine that!
The New York Times is reporting that "even as Cardinal Dolan insists that requiring some religiously affiliated employers to pay contraception services would be an unprecedented, and intolerable, government intrusion on religious liberty," the archdiocese he heads has been using its own money to pay for a union health plan that includes coverage for birth control and abortions for those employed at its nursing homes and clinics since the 1990s.
As the president of the United States Council of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Dolan has been at the forefront of the church's war against the Affordable Care Act, even rejecting arm's-length compromises offered by the Obama administration that would've allowed employees of religious institutions (schools, hospitals, nursing homes etc.) to be automatically enrolled in a separate individual health insurance policy without cost sharing or additional premiums.
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Tracie Egan Morrissey
Today 12:30pm
The New York Archdiocese is suing the federal government to stop the mandate that employer-paid insurance policies must cover birth control, with Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York leading the fight claiming that it is unconstitutional to force the church to fund "such morally illicit activities." But it turns out the Archdiocese of NY has been quietly paying for such coverage — even abortions — for over a decade. The Catholic Church are hypocrites!? Imagine that!
The New York Times is reporting that "even as Cardinal Dolan insists that requiring some religiously affiliated employers to pay contraception services would be an unprecedented, and intolerable, government intrusion on religious liberty," the archdiocese he heads has been using its own money to pay for a union health plan that includes coverage for birth control and abortions for those employed at its nursing homes and clinics since the 1990s.
As the president of the United States Council of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Dolan has been at the forefront of the church's war against the Affordable Care Act, even rejecting arm's-length compromises offered by the Obama administration that would've allowed employees of religious institutions (schools, hospitals, nursing homes etc.) to be automatically enrolled in a separate individual health insurance policy without cost sharing or additional premiums.
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