Tag: "Health and Human Services"

Reproductive Wordplay
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Reproductive Wordplay

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Experts claim that Planned Parenthood has such a serious foothold on government policy and finances that it would literally take a jackhammer to pull them apart. In fact, some historians have even suggested that Planned Parenthood softened many of its early positions from the hard-line culture of death posture in order to garner respectability among […]

Bishops Reject Obama's 'Accommodation'
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Bishops Reject Obama’s ‘Accommodation’

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The American bishops have, with alacrity, rejected President Obama’s proposed “accommodation” on the contraception mandate in no uncertain terms. Their response came before the sun had set on the very day of his announcement. Noting that the “proposal continues to involve needless government intrusion in the internal governance of religious institutions, and to threaten government coercion of […]

A Petition For All Freedom Loving People to Sign
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A Petition For All Freedom Loving People to Sign

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Certainly by now you’ve heard that the present Administration, through the Health and Human Services Department, is mandating that all employer healthcare insurance plans provide coverage for procedures which violate the beliefs of the Catholic Church, and Catholic institutions. Basically, the new rules require the Church, and the institutions operating faithfully under the aegis of […]

Caesar Overreaching Once Again
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Caesar Overreaching Once Again

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What do political pundits Peggy Noonan, Chris Matthews, E.J. Dionne, Jr., and Mark Shields have in common? Noonan, a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, is Catholic. Matthews and Dionne claim to be loyal but dissident Catholics at least on matters such as contraception (Dionne) and public policy on abortion (Matthews). Mark Shields, another Catholic, is […]

A Shocking Dose of Sanity from the HHS
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A Shocking Dose of Sanity from the HHS

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Plan B (also known as the morning-after pill) was approved by the FDA at the end of the Clinton administration in 1999. Since 2009, it has been available behind the pharmacy counter without prescription for women 17 years of age and older.  This week, the FDA considered a request from Plan B manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals […]

HHS Birth Control Mandate Tied to NARAL, Planned Parenthood
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HHS Birth Control Mandate Tied to NARAL, Planned Parenthood

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The medical committee behind the federal government’s impending mandate that insurers cover birth control without co-pay is populated by board members of NARAL and Planned Parenthood, as well as major donors to politicians favoring legal abortion. The pro-life organization HLI America says public records show the ideological roots of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee, […]