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Bishops lament lack of protections against taxpayer-funded abortion in COVID relief package
- Mar 11, 2021
Hours after the Biden administration’s COVID-19 relief plan passed Wednesday, several U.S. Bishops Conference chairmen called it “unconscionable” that the bill didn’t include protections against taxpayer funding of abortion.
Bishops say pandemic relief bill must be passed without abortion funding
- Mar 5, 2021
If it passes and becomes law, the American Rescue Plan Congress is considering would pit the great need Americans have for economic relief in this pandemic against those who insist the bill must include abortion funding, said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the chairmen of seven USCCB committees.
Bill would block taxpayer funding of abortion, make Hyde Amendment permanent
- Feb 10, 2021
U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, has introduced a bill to prohibit use of federal taxpayer dollars to fund abortions.
Fauci says Biden expected to overturn ‘Mexico City policy’ in ‘coming days’
- Jan 22, 2021
Dr. Anthony Fauci told the World Health Organization’s executive board Jan. 21 that “in the coming days,” President Joe Biden will revoke the so-called “Mexico City policy,” which blocks U.S. funding of foreign nongovernmental organizations that perform and promote abortion as a form of family planning.
Pro-lifers fear ‘hard-core, pro-abortion forces’ in a Biden administration
- Nov 15, 2020
If President Donald Trump’s legal efforts to challenge his 2020 reelection results prove unsuccessful and Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States, pro-life advocates are finding no silver linings.
U.S. Church in 2017: Tension in the time of Trump
- Dec 27, 2017
Part one of Crux’s look back at life in the U.S. Church during 2017.
As repeal fails, bishop calls for sustainable funding, conscience protections
- Jul 29, 2017
Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, said after Senate Republicans failed to pass a “skinny” repeal to remove parts of the Affordable Care Act that the task of reform remains, citing both financial sustainability and full protection of conscience rights.
Trump signs bill to let states redirect funds away from abortion clinics
- Apr 14, 2017
It is now possible for states to redirect Title X family planning funding away from clinics that perform abortions, such as planned parenthood. President Donald Trump signed the bill into law, overruling what some consider the previous administration’s “parting gift to the abortion industry.”
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