The Catholic Health Association, which represents hundreds of Catholic hospitals nationwide, last week signaled that the group supports the provision on abortion coverage in the Senate's health reform bill (HR 3590) on the issue of federal funding for abortion, the New York Times reports. In the days leading to the vote on the bill, CHA released a statement saying that officials were "encouraged" and "increasingly confident" that the Senate abortion coverage language "can achieve the objective of no federal funding for abortion...
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