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"As part of that exchange, the topic of the HHS contraception mandate arose, and Joe Biden insisted that the rule wouldnt apply to any Catholic institution Catholic or otherwise, including Catholic social services, Georgetown hospital, Mercy hospital, any hospital, and declared, That is a fact. That is a fact.
"This is not a fact, said a statement issued by the U.S.C.C.B on Friday. The HHS mandate contains a narrow, four-part exemption for certain religious employers. That exemption was made final in February and does not extend to Catholic social services, Georgetown hospital, Mercy hospital, any hospital, or any other religious charity that offers its services to all, regardless of the faith of those served.
"HHS has proposed an additional accommodation for religious organizations like these, which HHS itself describes as non-exempt, said the U.S.C.C.B. That proposal does not even potentially relieve these organizations from the obligation to pay for contraception and to be a vehicle to get contraception. They will have to serve as a vehicle, because they will still be forced to provide their employees with health coverage, and that coverage will still have to include sterilization, contraception, and abortifacients. They will have to pay for these things, because the premiums that the organizations (and their employees) are required to pay will still be applied, along with other funds, to cover the cost of these drugs and surgeries.
"This is one of the biggest bald-faced lies Joe Biden told during the debate. The Obama administration defined religious organization in its narrow exemption to the HHS mandate as places of worship i.e., the churches themselves or organizations that only employ and serve people of the same religious affiliation."
"Biden has been personally challenged on this point many times, and refuses to acknowledge that the so-called accommodation did nothing to change that limitation of the freedom of religious expression. Biden knows well what the issues are, and what the mandate actually does to the organizations he named in this statement. He just chose to lie about it."
Catholic bishops to Biden: That ain’t the fact, Jack « Hot Air
"This is not a fact, said a statement issued by the U.S.C.C.B on Friday. The HHS mandate contains a narrow, four-part exemption for certain religious employers. That exemption was made final in February and does not extend to Catholic social services, Georgetown hospital, Mercy hospital, any hospital, or any other religious charity that offers its services to all, regardless of the faith of those served.
"HHS has proposed an additional accommodation for religious organizations like these, which HHS itself describes as non-exempt, said the U.S.C.C.B. That proposal does not even potentially relieve these organizations from the obligation to pay for contraception and to be a vehicle to get contraception. They will have to serve as a vehicle, because they will still be forced to provide their employees with health coverage, and that coverage will still have to include sterilization, contraception, and abortifacients. They will have to pay for these things, because the premiums that the organizations (and their employees) are required to pay will still be applied, along with other funds, to cover the cost of these drugs and surgeries.
"This is one of the biggest bald-faced lies Joe Biden told during the debate. The Obama administration defined religious organization in its narrow exemption to the HHS mandate as places of worship i.e., the churches themselves or organizations that only employ and serve people of the same religious affiliation."
"Biden has been personally challenged on this point many times, and refuses to acknowledge that the so-called accommodation did nothing to change that limitation of the freedom of religious expression. Biden knows well what the issues are, and what the mandate actually does to the organizations he named in this statement. He just chose to lie about it."
Catholic bishops to Biden: That ain’t the fact, Jack « Hot Air
