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A 3 page paper that summarizes and comments on an article that focuses on the Church’s strong opposition to a federal mandate that requires all health care plans to pay for contraceptives. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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proposed federal mandate that would require all health care plans to provide contraceptives and sterilization processes at no additional cost to the patients covered by those plans. The proposed mandate
caused an uproar in the Catholic clergy, officials, and others in the Church. Leaders in the Church have argued that the "conscience clause" in the proposed legislation is too narrow,
i.e., it would not benefit most Catholic organization. There are two issues. One is about Catholic hospitals and health care facilities providing contraceptives and sterilization procedures to the patients.
The other has to do with employees of Catholic institutions where employee health care plans do not cover these services. Sister Carol Keehan has been a strong speaker against the
mandate. Keehan heads the association of Catholic health care institution, including hospitals. The association has 600 members, which means it can e a strong force against the mandate. In September
2011, Keehan wrote that the conscience clause is greatly inadequate. She pointed out that in 1727, President Jefferson told the Ursuline nuns, the first to establish Catholic health care, that
the civil government would not interfere with their rules. Catholic leaders across the country asked their parishioners to write letters to the U.S. Health and Human Services Department objecting to
this new mandate. Catholic universities sent letters to the President asking him to exempt all religious individuals and institutions from participating in the mandate. The President of the University of
Notre Dame wrote a letter asking that the definition of religious employer be changed to the one that is used by the Internal Revenue Service. The article is biased
insofar as it focuses on the Catholic argument against this mandate. It is objective insofar as the author did not write about her own opinion. A completely objective article would
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