The following summarizes selected womens healthrelated blog entries.~ “U.S. Catholic Bishops Health Care Bill Funds Abortion,” Dan Gilgoff, U.S. News & World Reports “God & Country” In a letter to House members released on Wednesday, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops condemned health care reform legislation HR 3200 proposed by House Democrats, claiming that its [...]

Massachusettsbased Catholic hospital system Caritas Christi Health Care on Friday ended its joint venture with the Missouribased health insurer Centene after Cardinal Sean OMalley of the Archdiocese of Boston insisted that the relationship linked Catholic hospitals too closely to abortion providers, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle reports (AP/San Francisco Chronicle, 6/27). Under the joint venture, Caritas [...]

“In recent years, conservative political strategists have painted African Americans as being more opposed to abortion than the white population,” but experts believe that there actually “is a declining black support for conservative social policies like abortion,” Tracie Powell, a former congressional fellow with the American Political Science Association, writes in a CQ Politics opinion [...]

The Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post recently published opinion pieces responding to the shooting death of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller. Summaries appear below.~ Suzanne Poppema, Los Angeles Times “We must turn [Tillers] terrifying end into the beginning of a new era when doctors can save lives without risking their own,” Poppema, a [...]

The recent murder of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller has increased tensions between groups on both sides of the abortion debate at a time when the White House is advocating a move toward “common ground” on the issue, the Los Angeles Times reports. Tiller, one of the few doctors who performed abortions later in pregnancy, [...]