Nuns Back Bill Amid Broad Rift Over Whether It Limits Abortion Enough

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Source: NYT

In breaking publicly with Roman Catholic bishops over the health care bill, a group of nuns has once again exposed the long-running rift between liberal and conservative theology in the Catholic Church.

The issue dividing them is whether the Senate version of the legislation goes far enough in limiting the use of federal subsidies paid for insurance policies that cover abortion. Progressive Catholics, including the group of more than 50 nuns representing thousands more from various religious orders, said this week that they would support the Senate bill. The traditionalists, like the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, said they would oppose it.

Although both the nuns and the bishops firmly oppose abortion, they have reached different conclusions about the bill, a divide that is also playing out more broadly among other groups that oppose abortion...

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...Sister Simone, who described herself as anti-abortion, said she did not believe that the Senate version of the bill would make abortion more widely available. She did not directly criticize the bishops, but said “some people could be motivated by a political loyalty that’s outside of caring for the people who live at the margins of health care in society...”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/health/policy/20abortion.html

[FarLeftFist]

1. Something tells me that when it comes to abortion....

We should listen to the ladies.

[Faygo Kid]

2. The next time a nun gets pregnant, she should have the right to choose.

Just like Sarah Palin.

[Ozymanithrax]

3. It isn't the abortion issue, it is the care it gives to those that need it that counts to them...

Now, for the Bishops, it's abortion. Why, I don't know. Altar boys can't get pregnant.

[FourScore]

5. Word. n/t

[Kind of Blue]

8. And the nuns are pretty confident there will be no

federal funding of abortion.

"Sister CAROL KEEHAN (President/CEO, Catholic Health Association): I believe this bill is a good first step. We have the president, we have the speaker of the House, we have the leader of the Senate, and we have the secretary of HHS saying publicly there will be no federal funding for abortion."

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=124784784

[Bitwit1234]

4. Stupak says he listens to Focus on the Family

and right to Life before he listened to Nuns. So what has those two organizations to do with the voters of Michigan. Focus on the Family is one of the organizations that is connected to the house on "C" Street where Stupak lives and pays a minor rent. C Street "religious" house that rents out rooms to congress men and senators who pay them back by supporting abortion. Never mind what the people of Michigan want, they have to take what Focus on the Family, Right to Life and Priest want.

[defendandprotect]

6. Good for the nuns . . .!!

[bc3000]

7. Bishops are like mini-kings. They are completely out of touch with the world.around them.