Cecile Richards’s legacy: calling abortion “health care”

The Twitterverse murmured #ThankYouCecile the other day to mark the end of Cecile Richards’s tenure leading the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Hats off to the Babylon Bee for skewering that bit of social media hashtagging: “Woman Celebrated for Killing 3.5 Million People.” In all seriousness, Richards is a consequential woman. It would be a mistakeContinue reading “Cecile Richards’s legacy: calling abortion “health care””

Undermining Religious Liberty in the Name of “Health Care”

Congress is about to take a vote on Obamacare: repeal, replace, whatever. Amid all the tinkering, I am not hearing much from Members of Congress about what made the “Affordable Care Act” utterly unacceptable to so many Catholics, including me: the contraceptive mandate.