The pen is mightier than the sword...

Remember when Pres. Obama handed to Sr. Keehan, head of the Catholic Health Association, one of the pens used to sign into law Obamacare?  Well, apparently she used that pen to write her own judgement that the so-called compromise over abortion, antiabortifacients, and birth control was, in fact, no compromise at all.  Read it all...

(RNS) In an unexpected blow to the Obama administration and a major boon for America's Catholic bishops, the influential Catholic Health Association on Friday (June 15) rejected White House proposals aimed at easing faith-based objections to the contraception mandate.

“The more we learn, the more it appears that the … approaches for both insured and self-insured plans would be unduly cumbersome and would be unlikely to adequately meet the religious liberty concerns of all of our members and other Church ministries,” Sister Carol Keehan and leaders of the CHA said in a five-page response to the Department of Health and Human Services.

The point here is not who won and who lost but the problems with crafting a compromise over a moral absolute.  It cannot be done.  The cause for life is a cause for life.  Period.  There is no compromise on those medical procedures or medicines which prevent pregnancy by killing what is in the womb.  To pay for it in any way shape or form is to be an accomplice to this evil that deprives the most basic right to those not yet born.

The struggle goes on...