Catholic Bishops Staff Challenge Obama Admin on Abortion, Health Care Mislead
- Steven Ertelt - LifeNews.com
- Oct 16, 2009
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Staff at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops are taking the Obama administration to task after a top presidential spokesman twice misrepresented abortion policy on health care and abortion funding. White House press secretary has yet to correct the record on his misleading claim.
As LifeNews.com reported, Gibbs said last week during a press conference that the Hyde amendment makes it so there will be no abortion funding in the health care bills, even though the law doesn't apply.
Richard Doerflinger, the associate director for the pro-life office at the USCCB, said all of the current bills fund abortions.
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