National Catholic Reporter: Health Care Bill Must Pass

Catholic swing voters, backed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, have upped the ante on health care: not just neutrality but no complicity on abortion has become their demand.  I generally mistrust the "right to life" movement, seeing it as a wedge issue of the right - like the racism and militarism that have driven the post-Civil Rights sun belt Republican "southern strategy" the past 40 years.  But it is clearly more than that.  A religion with rituals of birth and resurrection at its center certainly will place life on the highest pedestal. 


So there has been a great tension among Catholics: can we advance health care and reduce abortion at the same time? 

The editors of National Catholic Reporter think so.  
The Health Care Bill Must Pass, they say.