Cardinal Dolan, joined more than 500 leading scholars, university presidents and other academic administrators, activists, and religious leaders from a multitude of faiths, in a statement rejecting the governmental Health and Human Services mandate requiring employers to provide, directly or indirectly, insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilizations, and contraceptives, and also rejecting President Obama’s so-called “accommodation” of religious liberty as a mere “accounting trick” that changes nothing of moral substance.
Yesterday, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Archbishop of New York, His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, joined more than 500 leading scholars, university presidents and other academic administrators, activists, and religious leaders from a multitude of faiths, in a statement rejecting the governmental Health and Human Services mandate requiring employers to provide, directly or indirectly, insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilizations, and contraceptives, and also rejecting President Obama’s so-called “accommodation” of religious liberty as a mere “accounting trick” that changes nothing of moral substance.
The statement is entitled “Unacceptable” and is available here. Its original drafters are Professor Mary Ann Glendon, of the Harvard Law School; Professor Robert P. George of Princeton; Yuval Levin, Hertog Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center; Professor O. Carter Snead of Notre Dame; and, President of Catholic University, John Garvey.
Among the signers are Emory University’s Ann Hartle, Fordham’s Jacqueline Nolan-Haley, Rabbi David Novak of the University of Toronto; the eminent Muslim scholar and public intellectual Shaykh Hamza Yusuf; University of Chicago Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain; the great religious liberty scholar and appellate litigator Michael McConnell of Stanford Law School; Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, Vice President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; the distinguished political theorist Thomas Pangle of the University of Texas; Rabbi Meir Soloveichik of Yeshiva University; Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia; Evangelical leader and Prison Fellowship founder Charles Colson; Archbishop Peter Akinola, former Anglican Primate of Nigeria; Dr. Paige Patterson, former President of the Southern Baptist Convention; Rev. Eugene F. Rivers III of the Church of God in Christ; Stockholm Prize laureate Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe of Princeton University; Russell Moore, Dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary ; Mother Agnes Mary Donovan, Superior General of the Sisters of Life; Lorraine Pangle, Professor of Government, UT Austin; Ann W. Astell, University of Notre Dame; Lynn Wardle , BYU; Helen Alvaré, George Mason University; Maria S. Aguirre, Catholic University; Lorraine Gin, University of Arizona; Jeanne Heffernan Schindler, Villanova University; Mary Sommers, University of St. Thomas in Texas; Paz Zorita, Arizona State; Tiffany Donaldson, University of Massachusetts; Mary Daly at Notre Dame; Kimberly Shankman at Benedictine College, among many others.
Not only is this an alliance of Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Latter-Day Saints, Jews, Muslims, and others; the list of signers includes people from across the political spectrum–liberals, conservatives, and people fitting into neither category. This is an unprecedented coming together of people to defend religious liberty and the rights of conscience against a deeply misguided and unjust governmental action.
Related developments: Asma Uddin of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty will be testifying on this matter before the House Judiciary Committee tomorrow, Tuesday, February 28. Professor Carter Snead will be speaking at a Federalist Society event on this matter on Thursday, March 1.
The letter:
| The Obama administration has offered what it has styled as an ―accommodation‖ for religious institutions in the dispute over the HHS mandate for coverage (without cost sharing) of abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and contraception. The administration will now require that all insurance plans cover (―cost free‖) these same products and services. Once a religiously-affiliated (or believing individual) employer purchases insurance (as it must, by law), the insurance company will then contact the insured employees to advise them that the terms of the policy include coverage for these objectionable things. |
| This so-called ―accommodation‖ changes nothing of moral substance and fails to remove the assault on religious liberty and the rights of conscience which gave rise to the controversy. It is certainly no compromise. The reason for the original bipartisan uproar was the administration’s insistence that religious employers, be they institutions or individuals, provide insurance that covered services they regard as gravely immoral and unjust. Under the new rule, the government still coerces religious institutions and individuals to purchase insurance policies that include the very same services. |
| It is no answer to respond that the religious employers are not ―paying‖ for this aspect of the insurance coverage. For one thing, it is unrealistic to suggest that insurance companies will not pass the costs of these additional services on to the purchasers. More importantly, abortion-drugs, sterilizations, and contraceptives are a necessary feature of the policy purchased by the religious institution or believing individual. They will only be made available to those who are insured under such policy, by virtue of the terms of the policy. |
| It is morally obtuse for the administration to suggest (as it does) that this is a meaningful accommodation of religious liberty because the insurance company will be the one to inform the employee that she is entitled to the embryo-destroying ―five day after pill‖ pursuant to the insurance contract purchased by the religious employer. It does not matter who explains the terms of the policy purchased by the religiously affiliated or observant employer. What matters is what services the policy covers. |
| The simple fact is that the Obama administration is compelling religious people and institutions who are employers to purchase a health insurance contract that provides abortion-inducing drugs, contraception, and sterilization. This is a grave violation of religious freedom and cannot stand. It is an insult to the intelligence of Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Jews, Muslims, and other people of faith and conscience to imagine that they will accept an assault on their religious liberty if only it is covered up by a cheap accounting trick. |
| Finally, it bears noting that by sustaining the original narrow exemptions for churches, auxiliaries, and religious orders, the administration has effectively admitted that the new policy |
| (like the old one) amounts to a grave infringement on religious liberty. The administration still fails to understand that institutions that employ and serve others of different or no faith are still engaged in a religious mission and, as such, enjoy the protections of the First Amendment. |
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| Partner, Weil Gotshal and Manges |
| Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel |
| Americans United for Life |
| President, Americans United for Life |
| Vice-Chairman, Americans United for Life Affiliated Scholar, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University School of Medicine |
| President and General Counsel |
| President, Galen Institute |
| President, Women for Faith & Family |
| University of Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life |
| Director, William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution |
| The Witherspoon Institute |
| Executive Director, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty |
| Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. |
| Founding President, The Ruth Institute |
| John F. Brehany, Ph.D. Executive Director and Ethicist Catholic Medical Association |
| Director, Islam and Civil Society Project |
| The Witherspoon Institute |
| Ed Feulner President The Heritage Foundation |
| Andrew T. Seeley, PhD Executive Director Institute for Catholic Liberal Education |
| Executive Editor, Touchstone |
| Executive Director, The Fellowship of St. James |
| Paige C. Cunningham, JD Executive Director The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity |
| Founder and National Spokesman, Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation |
| President and CEO, Georgia Family Council |
| Vice President of Public Policy, Georgia Family Council |
| Stuart W. Nolan, Jr., Esq. |
| LegalWorks Apostolate, PLLC |
| Patrick J. Reilly President, The Cardinal Newman Society |
| Robert E. Laird, President |
| Cabrini Center for Catholic Health Care |
| President, National Review Institute |
| Patricia Pitkus Bainbridge, M.A. |
| Chairman, Human Life International |
| Co-Founder, Life Decisions International |
| Ronald J. Distajo, MD, MPH |
| Clinical Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School |
| Staff Physician, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Catholic Medical Association |
| Temple University School of Medicine |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Sister Marysia Weber, R.S.M., D.O. |
| Board Certified in Psychiatry and Neurology |
| Sister Sean Marie, R.S.M., BSN, RN, CPN |
| Sister Mary Juanita, R.S.M., MSc.OT |
| Sister Mary Lucy Cyr, RSM, MSN, MA |
| St Francis Xavier Health System |
| Sister Mary Gretchen Hoffman, R.S.M., M.D. |
| Sister_Mary Raphael Paradis, R.S.M. |
| Sacred Heart Mercy Health Care Center |
| Sister Mary Charles Mayer, R.S.M. |
| Director of the Office of Consecrated Life |
| Sister Jane Mary Firestone, R.S.M., M.D. |
| Chief of Staff at Sacred Heart Mercy Health Care Center |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Christin J. McIntyre, MD, PhD |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Associate Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences |
| Chief, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension |
| Mary A. Andrews Doctor of Medicine from Creighton University Class of 2009 Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Brian L. Cmolik, M.D. FACS |
| Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery |
| Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine |
| Elaine B. York, MD Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| John Millard, M.M.S., PA-C |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Dr. John P. Cosgrove, D.O. |
| Family Practice Physician |
| Catholic Medical Association Member |
| Franciscan St. Margaret Health |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine |
| Ohio State University Medical Center |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Essentia Health Endocrinology |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Marybeth J. Adams, MSN, APRN |
| Family Nurse Practitioner |
| St. Catherine Family Health Care & Pregnancy Resource Center |
| St. Mary’s Health Service |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Jerry L. Kitchens, Jr. M.D. |
| Janet Rother, RN, BSN Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Private practice physician |
| President of the American Society for Mohs Surgery |
| Affiliated with SSM St. Louis Health Care System |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Christian Medical and Dental Association |
| President of the Santa Clara Guild of the Catholic Medical Association |
| Touro University Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| East Dallas Health Center |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Sanford School of Medicine |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| William V. Williams, M.D. |
| Editor in Chief, The Linacre Quarterly |
| Family Physician, Hanover, PA |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Chairman, Miami Valley Hospital Medical Imaging Department |
| President, SW Ohio Guild of the Catholic Medical Association |
| Melvin Hecker, D.O., FACEP, FACOEP |
| Carl T. Amodio, D.C., DIBAK |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Family Physician at Southeast Lancaster Health Services |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Tulane University School of Medicine class of 2012 |
| Past-President, Catholic Medical Association – Student Section |
| Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Christus Santa Rosa Medical Center |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Ruth Hayes-Barba, LCSW, MTS |
| Northwest Family Services |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| La Clinica Guadalupana, Inc |
| Jana Q. Carpenter, RN, MS |
| John F. Rinke, MD Member, Catholic Medical Association – Milwaukee Guild |
| Member, South Dakota Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| South Dakota Family Practice Association |
| Medical Consultant and Practician of the Creighton Model |
| NFP Medical Director of the Avera Health program – Sioux Falls, SD |
| Member, Catholic Medical Society |
| Christine Lum Lung, M.D., SFHM Northern Colorado Hospitalists Medical Director |
| Jon K. Marsh, D.O., F.A.C.O.I. |
| Emergency Physician, Texas |
| Enrique J Canton M.D., FAAP, KM |
| Miami Children’s Hospital |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Patrick J. Scarpitti, M.D |
| Lexington Infectious Diseases Consultants |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| St. Joseph Physician Associates |
| Anthony R. Vigil, MD FACS |
| Associate Professor of Surgery |
| Assistant Clerkship Director |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Thomas K. Nelson, M.D. Mayo Clinic Arizona Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Eduardo Gonzalez-Toledo MD,PhD |
| Professor of Radiology, Neurology and Anesthesiology |
| Director of Neuroradiology/ Director of Research |
| St. Anthony’s Primary Care |
| Associate Director, Graduate Medical Education |
| Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency Program |
| Baton Rouge General Medical Center |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Cécile Rochard O’ Connor, MD |
| FRCPC Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Canada |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Fellow, American Congress of Obstetrics & Gynecology |
| Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Rochester, MN |
| Gretchen M. Van Steenwyk-Marsh, D.O., AOBFP |
| Family Physician, Creighton model Fertility Care teacher/medical consultant |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association, American Osteopathic Association, American Osteopathic College of Family Physicians, Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of California, American Academy of Fertility Care Professionals |
| Fremont-Rideout Health Group and Hospital |
| Veronica Jane Gaetze M.D., F.A.C.O.G. |
| Avera McKennan Hospital and University Center |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Bro. Ignatius Perkins, OP, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNYAM Dean and Professor of Nursing |
| Aquinas College Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| St. Alexius Medical Center |
| Gerard S Brungardt MD BeL |
| Medical Director, Hynes Memorial Hospice |
| Associate Professor Internal Medicine |
| University of Kansas School of Medicine – Wichita |
| President, Northwest Ohio Guild of the Catholic Medical Association |
| Member Catholic Medical Association |
| Former Chairman of the Ethics Committee, St. Mary’s Medical Center |
| Pediatric Otolaryngology and Facial Plastic Surgery |
| Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology |
| University of Minnesota Medical School |
| Terrence D. Lagerlund, M.D. |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Elmhurst Clinic, Elmhurst, IL |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| President, Portland Guild of the Catholic Medical Association |
| Geoffrey W. McCarthy MD MBA |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Executive Editor, ONCOLOGY |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Andrew Porter, D.O., FAAFP |
| Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency |
| Associate Director, Sports Medicine Fellowship |
| Via Christi Health, University of Kansas School of Medicine |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Andrellita Chavez, ATC B.S. Athletic Training New Mexico Highlands University Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Matthew Trom PA-C Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Catholic Medical Association physician |
| Erika Hagstrom Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Deacon Patrick Mongan, MD, MAPS Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Sister Edith Mary Hart, RSM, DO |
| Family Medicine/Geriatrics |
| Sacred Heart Mercy Health Care Foundation |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| President, Catholic Medical Association – Philadelphia Guild |
| Alfred J Carlson, Jr M. D. |
| Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association – Philadelphia Guild |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Robert L. Capizzi, MD, FACP, KHS, KM |
| President and Chief Medical Officer |
| Former Chair, Department of Medicine |
| Jefferson Medical College |
| Lauri Leahy, MD UT-Houston Medical School Helen Danahey, M.D. Pediatrician, Cottonwood Pediatrics Tucson, AZ |
| Associate Professor of Pediatrics |
| Medical Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory |
| University of Colorado, Anshutz Medical Campus |
| Member, Catholic Medical Association |
| Sister Mary Nika Schaumber, R.S.M., J.C.D. |
| Co-chair Ethics Department – Saint Francis Health System |
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