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To: Brumar89 who wrote (21195)	2/12/2012 2:59:33 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Your post that I replied to was about contraception, not abortion. Also some Catholic colleges did cover abortions. . . A maze of regulations and mandates, labyrinthine policies and high costs complicate Catholic colleges attempt to provide employee health insurance consistent with the faith U.S. Catholic colleges have widely disparate levels of compliance with Church teaching when it comes to faculty and staff health insurance plans -- with some offering artificial contraception, abortion, voluntary sterilization and other procedures that conflict with Church teaching in their plans. While Our Sunday Visitor found, in an unscientific sampling of Catholic college faculty and staff health plans, that some colleges have developed pro-life Catholic solutions, a leading advocate of faith-based health insurance said many colleges are offering benefits that undermine the Church's teaching because they adopt standard "off the shelf" insurance packages that automatically include abortion, artificial contraception and sterilization. "I would say that most colleges are covering abortion and artificial contraception because they have not been able to find a way to economically provide insurance to their people without them," said Mike O'Dea, founder of Christus Medicus Foundation. projectsycamore.com Sister Carol Keehan, the president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, is pleased: “The Catholic Health Association is very pleased with the White House announcement that a resolution has been reached that protects the religious liberty and conscience rights of Catholic institutions,” Keehan said. “The framework developed has responded to the issues we identified that needed to be fixed. We are pleased and grateful that the religious liberty and conscience protection needs of so many ministries that serve our country were appreciated enough that an early resolution of this issue was accomplished. The unity of Catholic organizations in addressing this concern was a sign of its importance. This difference has at times been uncomfortable but it has helped our country sort through an issue that has been important throughout the history of our great democracy.” Perhaps you were referring to emergency contraceptive pills (sometimes called the morning-after pill)? In any case the PPACA does not require abortion services to be covered..