Contraception mandate Archives

Catholic Benefits Association presses Trump to end contraceptive mandate
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- August 30, 2017
The Catholic Benefits Association, based in Castle Rock, Colorado, and representing more than 1,000 Catholic health care providers, has been the largest single plaintiff challenging the Obamacare contraceptive mandate. The association first sued the government in March 2014. CBA members are facing $6 billion in accumulated penalties should the issue fail to be resolved.
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Catholic group asks U.S. government to drop appeal in HHS mandate case
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- July 30, 2017
The Catholic Benefits Association based in Castle Rock, Colorado has filed a motion to get the government to drop its appeal of the Health and Human Services mandate to make insurers cover contraception. They are hoping under a Trump administration for a quick resolution, but it’s not clear they will get it.
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Bishops’ point man on religious freedom gives mixed verdict on Trump order
- Church in the US, Interviews, Pope/Trump
- May 15, 2017
Archbishop William Lori, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, told Crux that while he welcomes the recent executive order on religious freedom issued by President Donald Trump, “the devil is in the details”. He also said that repeal of the Johnson Amendment barring churches from endorsing candidates isn’t a focus, because “that’s really not our job.”
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Little Sisters hope contraception battle is nearing an end

Based on comments from President Donald Trump about the implications of his new executive order on religious freedom, the Little Sisters of the Poor hope their long legal struggle against the contraception mandates imposed as part of the Obama health care reform is almost over, saying “we’re on the one-yard line … we just have to get it over the goal line.”

Catholic leader calls Trump healthcare plan ‘unconscionable’

Sister Carol Keehan of the Catholic Health Association says a proposal by President Donald Trump to overhaul the health care reform enacted under Obama amounts to an “unconscionable” transfer of $880 billion from the poor to the rich. She also says she has no idea what Trump’s team may do about the contraception mandates that were part of the Obama measure.

Supreme Court nominee praised for record of building unity on religious freedom

President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court has ruled on some of the most important religious liberty cases in recent years while on the Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, including those of Hobby Lobby and Little Sisters of the Poor against the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate.