Of course, they don't technically oppose repeal either, according to a letter the USCCB sent members of the House yesterday. But the letter--signed by the chairs of the USCCB's committees on pro-life activities, domestic justice, and migration--did lay out three criteria that the bishops require in order to support health care legislation:
- Ensure access to quality, affordable, life-giving health care for all;
- Retain longstanding requirements that effectively protect conscience rights and that prohibit use of federal funds for elective abortions or plans that include them; and
- Protect the access to health care that immigrants currently have and remove current barriers to access
