{"id":219206,"date":"2020-02-28T18:03:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T00:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=219206"},"modified":"2020-02-28T16:59:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T22:59:01","slug":"california-forcing-religious-pay-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/california-forcing-religious-pay-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"California to Office for Civil Rights: We will keep forcing religious institutions to pay for abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After receiving a notice of violation<\/a> from Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights in late January, California is <\/span>refusing to back down<\/span><\/a> from forcing religious institutions to pay for abortion in employee\u2019s health plans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

State Attorney General Xavier Becerra sent a <\/span>letter<\/span><\/a> dated February 21st in response to the Trump administration\u2019s Notice of Violation letter. In it, he stated that no \u201ccorrective action\u201d is necessary and insists that California is in compliance with the Weldon Amendment.\u00a0The 2005 Weldon Amendment<\/a> bars federal funds from state or local governments if they discriminate \u201con the basis that the health care entity does not provide, pay for,\u00a0provide coverage of, or refer for abortions.\u201d The Amendment further defines that the Amendment applies specifically to \u201ca provider-sponsored organization, a health maintenance organization, a health insurance plan, or any other kind of health care facility, organization, or plan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This is not the first time California has violated the Weldon amendment. In 2019, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found that a law passed in California <\/span>forcing pregnancy resource centers to advertise abortion<\/span><\/a> in their facilities also violated the amendment. The Supreme Court ruled in favor<\/a> of the pregnancy centers’ right to free speech.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Former abortion workers speak: The abortion industry sees pregnancy centers as competition<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Becerra also stated that, \u201cThe facts […] have not changed since the last time [the OCR] adjudicated those facts, in 2016.\u201d Becerra is referring to the Obama administration\u2019s declaring California not in violation of the Weldon amendment, contrary to the text of the amendment and how it was <\/span>written and intended to be applied<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to an article in the <\/span>National Catholic Register<\/span><\/a>, the insurance coverage issue first arose in 2013 when two Catholic Universities in the state of California dropped abortion from their insured procedures. As Live Action News has previously reported, <\/span>Planned Parenthood<\/span><\/a> was a strong force behind the lobbying effort to have the state force all local entities to cover abortion. The state abortion mandate has also come under fire from <\/span>local religious orders<\/span><\/a> working with the poor, the needy, and immigrants. Churches and other religious institutions are also subject to California\u2019s sweeping discrimination against pro-lifers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the notice of violation, the state of California had 30 days from the January 24th notice to comply. After this, HHS could withhold federal funding from the state.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After receiving a notice of violation from Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights in late January, California is refusing to back down from forcing religious institutions to pay for abortion in employee\u2019s health plans.\u00a0 State Attorney General Xavier Becerra sent a letter dated February 21st in response to the Trump administration\u2019s Notice of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":606,"featured_media":56484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nCalifornia to Office for Civil Rights: We will keep forcing religious institutions to pay for abortions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"California is refusing to back down from forcing religious institutions to pay for abortion in employee\u2019s health plans, despite a notice of violation.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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