This Week’s Word of Life
“The bishops’ conference views health care as a basic right belong to all human beings, from conception to natural death…Much- needed reform must not become a vehicle for promoting an ‘abortion rights’ agenda or reversing longstanding current policies against federal abortion mandates and funding. In this sense, we urge you to make this legislation ‘abortion neutral’ by preserving longstanding federal policies that prevent government promotion of abortion and respect conscience rights.”
– Justin Cardinal Rigali, Letter to members of House Energy and Commerce Committee, July 29, 2009