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Conscience: The Newsjournal of Catholic Opinion

Vol. XXX- No. 1
In this Issue

 
press release

Catholics for Choice Statement on Antichoice Amendment to Healthcare Reform Bill

With the final House vote on healthcare reform nearing, antichoice extremists are holding the entire bill hostage to further their antiabortion agenda. They are demanding that the bill go far beyond the status quo restrictions on abortion that had been incorporated into the original bill.  In an outrageous amendment, which is expected to be voted on early Saturday afternoon, antichoice Democrats are demanding explicit and unequivocal exclusion of any coverage for abortion, even in private health plans in the proposed health insurance exchange. Women would lose coverage under this proposal.  Read more...

cfc in the news
The Washington Post: On Faith

What Catholics Want in Health Care Reform

The United States is embroiled in a debate over health care. Ideological divides over morality and money are front and center, and threatening to derail any real progress on what has become a major crisis. Read more...

healthcare reform

Catholics Support Healthcare Reform, Including Coverage for Abortion

According to a new poll of Catholic voters carried out by Belden Russonello and Stewart for Catholics for Choice, Catholics support healthcare reform and support a plan that would include funding for abortion. The vast majority of those polled, 84 percent, attend church regularly, from several times a week to a few times a year. The results show that the views of Catholics have been seriously misrepresented by the US bishops and by conservative Catholics in the debate over healthcare reform. Read more...

 

Read a one-page summary of the poll (PDF)

Read the entire poll with detailed findings (PDF)
CFC Statement: We Believe in Healthcare Reform (PDF)
Press Release: Catholics Do Not Support the Bishops' Stance on Healthcare

CONSCIENCE

Reducing the Need for Abortion

Honest Effort or Ideological Dodge?

 

There has been a lot of rhetoric around reducing the need for abortion this year. President Barack Obama's administration has been holding listening sessions to discuss the topic with prochoice proponents like Catholics for Choice and Planned Parenthood as well as antichoice and anticontraception advocates such as Concerned Women for America and Catholics United. But where will this dialogue lead us?


CFC president Jon O'Brien's lead article in the latest issue of Conscience questions how serious the administration is about reducing the need for abortion and how firm is its support for abortion rights and is an important step in furthering the conversation around reducing the need for abortion. Read more…

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New Publication

The Trouble with Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good

The latest investigative report from Catholics for Choice shows how Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, while presenting itself as just another group working for the “common good,” is in fact an antiabortion organization that publicly supports the restriction of abortion laws. To read The Trouble with Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, click here [PDF]