Thursday, July 2, 2009

Obama & Catholic press: Question 3

Patricia Zapor, reporter, Catholic News Service: What about the conscience clause for pro-life health care workers?

Obama said he has always been a believer in "robust" conscience clauses, but that he revoked the previous administration's "11th hour" change in provisions precisely because they were done at the last minute.

He said his administration had received "hundreds of thousands" of comments from people on his administration's review of the clauses.

"I can assure all of your readers that when this review is complete there will be a robust conscience clause in place. It may not meet the criteria of every possible critic of our approach, but it certainly will not be weaker than what existed before the changes were made."

DISQUS for OSV Daily Take