Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Catholic Theologians Support Senate Health Care Bill

Twenty five leading theologians and evangelical leaders have urged Congress to pass the Senate Health Care bill, National Catholic Reporter reports.   [thanks to Religious Left Law for this) Twenty-five pro-life Catholic theologians and Evangelical leaders [among them Terrence W. Tilley, Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. Professor of Catholic Theology and Chair, Theology Department at Fordham] sent letters to members of Congress urging them not to let misleading information about abortion provisions in the Senate health care bill block passage of sorely-needed reform.  the project awas organized by Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good.
Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, a Washington-based advocacy group, said that the Senate health bill upholds abortion funding restrictions and supports pregnant women.
The letter included a page by page analysis of the Senate bill as it pertains to abortion.
The group asked members of Congress “to make an informed decision about this legislation based on careful deliberation guided by facts.”
“We believe that the provisions below provide extensive evidence that longstanding restrictions on federal funding of abortion have been maintained. Furthermore, this bill provides new and important supports for vulnerable pregnant women,” the letter states.



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