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Upcoming mini-retreat by Dr. Janet Smith, scheduled for March 6.
More details.
The Catholic Medical Association is here to provide
information and coordination to doctors and health care professionals in Eastern
North Dakota concerning ways to grow in and live out the Catholic faith in the
modern world, especially as changes in national policy are quickly changing the
landscape of moral and ethical issues.
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Stop Abortion
Funding in Health Care Reform! |
| As long-time advocates of health care reform,
the U.S. Catholic bishops continue to make the moral case that
genuine health care reform must protect the life, dignity,
consciences and health of all, especially the poor and
vulnerable. Health care reform should not advance a pro-abortion
agenda in our country.
• On November 7, the U.S. House of Representatives passed
major health care reform that reaffirms the essential,
longstanding and widely supported policy against using federal
funds for elective abortions and includes positive measures on
affordability and immigrants.
• On December 24, the U.S. Senate rejected this policy and
passed health care reform that requires federal funds to help
subsidize and promote health plans that cover elective
abortions. All purchasers of such plans will be required to pay
for other people’s abortions through a separate payment solely
to pay for abortion.
• Outside the abortion context, neither bill has adequate
conscience protection for health care providers, plans or
employers.
• These two bills must now be combined into one bill that both
the House and Senate will vote on in final form. Provisions
against abortion funding and in favor of conscience protection,
affordability, and immigrants’ access to health care must be
part of a fair and just health care reform bill, or the final
bill must be opposed.
Contact your Representative and Senators today.
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Join the CMA
Even though a local guild of the Catholic Medical Association (CMA) will be
forming in the near future, you can still join the Association at the national
level, which will be part of local membership in the future. The National CMA
registration and dues form is available here.
Also, please join our
e-mail list.
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