HHS mandate has good side effect

State legislation blocking abortion insurance coverage grows

People participate in a rally in support of religious freedom in Garden City, N.Y., in June 2012.
CNS photo / Gregory A. Shemitz, Long Island Catholic.

Catholic News Agency has a rather surprising story that a number of states in the U.S. are passing restrictions on insurance coverage of abortion under the health care reform law.

Mary Harned, staff counsel at Americans United for Life, said that state-level pro-life laws passed in recent legislative sessions have "been a great victory for the unborn and women across the country."

"The fact that these types of laws are successful," Harned told CNA on Feb. 5, "shows that many Americans do not want public funds paying for abortions, and they also do not want their own insurance premiums paying for abortion."

For full story see The B.C. Catholic website.