Print this article The Bidens attend Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., January 20, 2021.
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President Joe Biden’s inaugural address, with its soaring phrases and stirring moments, eloquently laid out challenges facing our country and proposed unity as the solution. Watching his speech that January day, I dared to be hopeful. True unity is an American ideal, and indispensable because of our ethnic, ideological, and religious diversity. Given today’s division and rancor we need it more than ever. Perhaps here was someone a fellow Catholic who could bridge our difficult divides on the strength of the beautifully articulated, central tenet of our Christian religion: All men and women are created by a God whose love sustains our existence and who demands that we love each other as he has loved us.
The Biden administration has invited all states to provide full Medicaid benefits during pregnancy and the extended postpartum period. NNPA NEWSWIRE
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have announced actions to strengthen health equity and address racial disparities in maternal health through increased investment in reducing maternal mortality and morbidity.Â
The White House said the presidentâs discretionary funding request includes significant funding to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity rates, improve health equity, and end race based disparities nationwide, including:
Investing $200 million to implement implicit bias training for health care providers; create state pregnancy medical home programs; bolster Maternal Mortality Review Committees; expand the Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies (RMOMS) program; and help cities place early childhood development experts in pediatrician offices with a
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U.S. Bishops Denounce Biden Move to Reverse ‘Pro-Life Rule’
17 Apr 2021
The leadership of the U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) has denounced a move by the Biden administration to reintegrate abortion funding into the federal Title X family planning program.
“On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a proposed rule to reverse ‘The Protect Life Rule,’” the bishops note on their website, “a regulation issued by the Trump Administration in 2019 to clearly separate abortion from family planning in the federal Title X family planning program.”
“This policy change will allow the Title X program to become an indirect funding avenue for abortion providers,” Kansas City Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities, declared in a statement Friday.
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