The following is a column by Sr. Mary Ann Walsh, Director of Media Relations at the USCCB: Health and Human Services (HHS) acted to protect kids Dec. 7 when HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rejected a recommendation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to let stores sell powerful

September 30 marked the end of the public comment period on the “preventive services” mandate from the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) which fails to provide conscience protection and requires private health plans to cover female surgical sterilization and contra

Steven Bozza, director of the Respect Life Office at the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, has written a letter to the editor in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the HHS mandate and religious liberty. In his letter, “Patient protection act poses serious threat to our autonomy,”

“Religious ‘exemption’ in the mandate fails miserably to assure that religious conscience is protected” The Catholic Bishops of Pennsylvania yesterday reaffirmed their strong opposition to the mandate issued by the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) which would viol

CLICK HERE TO CONTACT HHS AND CONGRESS In implementing the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the new health care reform law), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued a rule requiring almost all private health plans to cover contraception a

We’ve been posting about the Department of Health and Human Services insurance mandate, which threatens rights of conscience and religious freedom, over the past few weeks. Here is the latest, from the USCCB: