cooperation with evil

by: los anjalis

Fri Dec 25, 2009 at 21:36:29 PM PST

The New York Times has a piece out today -- Christmas Day -- that sheds some light on cooperation with evil in the context of the abortion debate and the health insurance reform bill that just passed the Senate yesterday.

The Senate bill, approved Thursday morning, allows any state to bar the use of federal subsidies for insurance plans that cover abortion and requires insurers in other states to divide subsidy money into separate accounts so that only dollars from private premiums would be used to pay for abortions.

Just days before the bill passed, the Catholic Health Association, which represents hundreds of Catholic hospitals across the country, said in a statement that it was "encouraged" and "increasingly confident" that such a compromise "can achieve the objective of no federal funding for abortion." An umbrella group for nuns followed its lead.

The same day, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called the proposed compromise "morally unacceptable."

(more after the jump...)