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Pro-Life Bill Passes House Committee

House Bill 818, the bill that would ensure taxpayers do not fund abortions through the federal health care exchange administered in PA, was voted out of the House Health Committee today by a vote of 15 to 9. HB 818 now proceeds to the full House for a vote. An identical piece of legis
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April 15, 2013
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HB 818, insurance exchange, obamacare, PPACA, SB 3, taxpayer funded abortion

Pennsylvania will not set up state health exchange

Governor Corbett announced this afternoon that Pennsylvania will not set up its own health insurance exchanges under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).  In his statement, the governor said, “Healthcare reform is too important to be achieved through haphaza
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December 12, 2012
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abortion opt out, Governor Corbett, health exchanges, pcc, PPACA

Free Exercise No Longer Free or Exercisable

By now you’ve heard of the Department of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) religious liberty-violating mandate that employers must cover sterilization, abortion-causing drugs and contraception. The directive includes no real regard for religious beliefs or dictates of conscience, and w
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February 07, 2012
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Pro-Life Bill To Remove Taxpayer Funded Abortions from Health Exchange Passes House

Yesterday evening the Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted 146 to 45 to remove abortion funding from the state health care exchanges that will be created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). This margin of victory in the state house indicates that the legi
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December 13, 2011
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HB 1977, Health Care, PPACA, pro-life, SB 732, state health care exchanges

Comment Period Ends on HHS Mandate, What Now?

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
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October 05, 2011
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contraception mandate, HHS, HR 117, Pennsylvania Catholic Health Association, PPACA, religious freedom, S 1467, USCCB

Tell Congress – Contraceptive Mandate Violates Religious Freedom

Religious freedom and rights of conscience are threatened by the recent “preventive services” mandate from the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requiring private health plans to cover female surgical sterilization and all drugs and devices approved by the FDA as c
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August 09, 2011
by Hill
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abortion, birth control, Congress, contraception, Department of Health and Human Services, health and human services, Health Care, health care reform, health insurance, healthcare, mandate, mandated contraception, mandates, patient protection and affordable care act, PPACA, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate

Pro Life Victory: Senate Bill 3 Passes

The Pennsylvania State Senate voted 37 to 12 today to pass Senate Bill 3. The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires states to operate and maintain “health insurance exchanges” to provide a menu of low cost, government subsidized insurance plans which will
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June 07, 2011
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abortion opt out, Health Care, health care exchanges, PPACA, SB 3, Senate Bill 3

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