{"id":4181,"date":"2010-03-16T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/03\/bishops-on-health-reform-bill-it-must-be-opposed.html"},"modified":"2010-03-16T06:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T06:24:00","slug":"bishops-on-health-reform-bill-it-must-be-opposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/03\/bishops-on-health-reform-bill-it-must-be-opposed.html","title":{"rendered":"Bishops on health care bill: &#8220;It must be opposed&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Two basic principles&#8230;continue to shape the concerns of the Catholic bishops: health care means taking care of the health needs of all, across the human life span; and the expansion of health care should not involve the expansion of abortion funding and of polices forcing everyone to pay for abortions. Because these principles have not been respected, despite the good that the bill under consideration intends or might achieve, the Catholic bishops regretfully hold that it must be opposed unless and until these serious moral problems are addressed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">\n&#8212; Cardinal Francis George, President of the USCCB, <br \/>March 15, 2010, in <a href=\"http:\/\/whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/bishops-on-health-care-cost-too-high.html\">a statement<\/a> on the health care reform bill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Two basic principles&#8230;continue to shape the concerns of the Catholic bishops: health care means taking care of the health needs of all, across the human life span; and the expansion of health care should not involve the expansion of abortion funding and of polices forcing everyone to pay for abortions. 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