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Top Catholic Cardinal Says 'No Way' Catholic Members of Congress Can Support Senate Health Care Bill That Funds Abortion

2010-10-05T12:48:56Z

A top Roman Catholic cardinal told CNSNews.com that there is ?no way? Catholic members of Congress can support the Senate health care reform bill as long as it includes a provision that allows tax dollars to go to insurance plans that cover abortion.

At the National Press Club on Nov. 20, CNSNews.com asked Cardinal Justin Rigali, the archbishop of Philadelphia: ?The Senate health care bill that Majority Leader Reid released this week permits tax dollars to go to insurance plans w...

Abortion amendment 'throws women under bus': US activists

2010-06-25T19:51:56Z

Rights advocates Monday accused the most pro-choice US government in decades of throwing women under the bus after lawmakers tagged on an amendment restricting abortion access and funding to the health care reform bill.

"We had the most pro-choice candidate in decades, but we don't have the most pro-choice president," said Terry O'Neill, president of the half-million-strong Archbishop Timothy Dolan, right, of New York reacts after being elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during the conference's annual fall meeting Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Steve Ru...

CORRECTION Catholic Bishops

2010-11-16T09:33:29Z

Bishop Robert Vasa, left, of Baker, Ore., congratulates Archbishop Timothy Dolan, right, of New York after Dolan was elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during the conference's annual fall meeting Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 in Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn, N.Y. speaking during a news conference at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops fall meeting in