At first blush, the health care plan released today by Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus seems to shift somewhat in a pro-life direction. Whether it will be enough to satisfy pro-life groups — especially the Catholic Bishops — remains to be seen but it is more pro-life than the House bill in the following…

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Are the Catholic Bishops splitting from the rest of the pro-life movement on health care and abortion? The Bishops have always been in a different category from most of the pro-life or religious conservative groups in this sense: but for the abortion issue, they want to support health care reform. So far, though, their concerns…

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