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Lifting our voice. Heeding the call.
Here We Go Again: HHS’ New War on Religious Freedom
At the time of Xavier Becerra’s confirmation, the Register warned his appointment as secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) posed a grave threat to the religious freedom of believers. We based that warning on a sober assessment of his disastrous political record in California, where he earned the notoriety of being possibly the most flagrant dissenter on abortion and “LGBT” issues of any Catholic in American public life.
HHS Plans New Rule to Mandate Health-Care Providers Comply With Abortion and Gender-Transition Agendas, With No Religious-Freedom Exceptions
Recent court filings uncovered by the Catholic Benefits Association show HHS is working with activist groups to establish sweeping sex-discrimination regulations and dismantle the former Trump administration’s religious-liberty protections in health-care law.
CBA Wins Permanent Injunctions Against Obama-era Transgender Coverage Mandate
In a major religious rights victory, a federal judge has ruled in favor of Catholic Benefits Association (CBA) and its members in their suit filed in 2016. The ruling gives declaratory and permanent injunctive relief against the HHS 2016 regulation interpreting Section 1557 of the ACA mandating insurance coverage for gender transition drugs and surgeries and enjoins the EEOC from issuing similar regulations or undertaking investigations or enforcement actions based on its interpretations of sex discrimination under Title VII.
CBA Confronts Fetal Tissue Research in Clinical Trials
Catholic Benefits Association legal counsel, Martin Nussbaum, discusses the clinical trials mandates using aborted fetal tissue and our work on behalf of our members to grant a religious exemption.
What the Supreme Court LGBT decision could mean for Catholic employers
After the Supreme Court recognized protections for sexual orientation and gender identity in federal law this week, Catholic employers shouldn’t assume they will be protected from future lawsuits, says the Catholic Benefits Association.
Bearing Witness as a Catholic Employer
The most distinctive thing about the American founding was its protection of religious freedom. This protection was embodied in the Constitution and, subsequently, in hundreds of statutes and ordinances that accommodated or exempted religiously-conscientious individuals and organizations. As late as 1993, a unanimous House and 97 Senators enacted, and President Clinton signed, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Clinical Trials Mandate Letter to HHS OCR Director
As you will recall, on August 24, 2018, the Catholic Benefits Association (CBA) brought to your attention the issue of the Affordable Care Act’s clinical trial mandate codified at 42 U.S.C. § 300gg-8 that requires employers with health plans to cover the costs of clinical trials even when they utilize human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) or fetal tissue harvested from aborted fetuses. In that letter, we identified nine hESC clinical trials and twenty-two fetal tissue clinical trials and requested exemption from such trials for CBA member employers along with their third-party administrators and group insurers.
Amicus Brief – Little Sisters of the Poor
The government’s decision to cleave religious organization into two camps was bad enough. But doing so based on a tax code provision designed for a completely different purpose made no sense at all, and it yielded results both strange and constitutionally problematic.
Religious Freedom Reports
The Five Dangers of an Immoral Catholic Health Plan
by Jason Coon Protecting Catholic employers has become increasingly difficult in today’s political climate. Employers are faced with unique cultural and legal challenges, many of which come in the form of government mandates on health care benefits. But these same...
HHS Promises Aggressive New Rule for Spring 2022
Leadership Conference Memo ACA 1557 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Document Outlines HHS Plan for Abortion and Transgender Mandates with No Religious Exemptions HHS Promises Aggressive New Rule for Spring 2022 CASTLE ROCK, Colo., November 19, 2021 -- The Catholic Benefits...
The Power of Association Re-affirmed by the High Court
We have been closely monitoring a case that had the potential to threaten one of CBA’s founding principles, the power of association. Americans for Prosperity v. Bonta dealt directly with the right to associate anonymously, a key feature of the CBA model. From its...
Improving Catholic Identity
As CBA Members evaluate their health plan options, added attention to the Catholic Identity and CBA protections within their plan language is critical. Facing a growing need for a Catholic option, one Diocese saw how details matter in creating an authentic, Catholic...
What do you mean, our plan does not cover contraceptives?
Dear HR Friends, As leaders in human resources, you know how important Catholic identity is to protecting your organization’s ministries. I’m guessing that you also know that it’s not an easy road, even inside your organization. Your CBA membership provides your...