What are the catholic reasons to be against the new health care law?

Dear WD

The health care law requires payment for abortion through an abortion requirement. As Americans United for Life explains:

"Obamacare did mark a significant expansion of abortion. It violated one plank of the “Hyde Amendment principles” (Hyde itself does not apply, since Obamacare is funded outside of Health & Human Services appropriations): no federal funding of insurance plans that provide abortions. The state exchanges established under Obamacare will certainly include plans that cover abortion. These plans will receive federal subsidies, thus violating Hyde principles. The meaningless “restriction” in the law is that the subsidies go to the insurance provider, not the individual, and that the abortions are paid for from a pool established by mandatory monthly payments by insurees."

In addition Obaamcare covers contraception, sterilization, death panels, human cloning and human embryonic stem cell research.

Judie Brown

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