Kathleen Sebelius

So much for the HHS public comment process.
On the final day public comments were being accepted about proposed revisions to a hotly contested HHS rule, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told participants in a livestreamed propaganda presentation — err, healthcare…

Another chapter in the convoluted history of Plan B in the United States: a federal judge has ordered the US Food and Drug Administration to make the “morning after” pill available to girls under 17 without a prescription.
It is…

On Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) called on pediatricians in the US to provide advice to all adolescent patients about emergency contraception, and to prescribe it to girls under 17 in advance. US policy bans sales of the…

The Catholic Woman Voter

by Cheryl Dickow on September 20, 2012 · 1 comment

“The hour is coming, in fact has come, when the vocation of women is being acknowledged in its fullness, the hour in which women acquire in the world an influence, an effect and a power never hitherto achieved. That is…

The Declaration of Religious Independence

by Charlie Spiering May 1, 2012

If a decree like the HHS contraception mandate was issued during the Medieval era, Archbishop Dolan would probably have declared Secretary Kathleen Sebelius “anathema” and excommunicated her from the Church (see this famous scene from the movie Becket for an…

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Does Nancy Pelosi Speak for All U.S. Women?

by Sheila Liaugminas March 14, 2012

Women are showing up in greater numbers  in media and the public forum to say the HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, and Nancy Pelosi crowd don’t speak for them.
Women like Cathy Cleaver Ruse and Colleen Carroll Campbell:…

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Church’s Alliance with Government Comes Crashing Down

by Christopher Manion February 29, 2012

On the first Sunday in February, Catholics across the country heard homilies condemning the HHS mandate requiring Catholic institutions to subsidize free contraceptives for their employees. A friend of mine, shaking her head, wondered why the diktat had caught our…

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How Will the Bishops Respond to the Mandate?

by Russell Shaw February 10, 2012

A quiet, closed-door meeting in Washington next month will be of crucial importance in shaping the Church’s response to the nation’s biggest church-state crisis in decades.
When some 40 bishops of the administrative committee of the national bishops’ conference gather…

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