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Media Archives
Clinical Trials Mandate Letter to HHS OCR Director
February 27, 2020
As you will recall, on August 24, 2018, the Catholic Benefits Association (CBA) brought to your attention the issue of the Affordable Care Act’s clinical trial mandate codified at 42 U.S.C. § 300gg-8 that requires employers with health plans to cover the costs of clinical trials even when they utilize human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) or fetal tissue harvested from aborted fetuses. In that letter, we identified nine hESC clinical trials and twenty-two fetal tissue clinical trials and requested exemption from such trials for CBA member employers along with their third-party administrators and group insurers.
Amicus Brief – Little Sisters of the Poor
March 6, 2020
The government’s decision to cleave religious organization into two camps was bad enough. But doing so based on a tax code provision designed for a completely different purpose made no sense at all, and it yielded results both strange and constitutionally problematic.
What the Supreme Court LGBT decision could mean for Catholic employers
As seen in the Catholic News Agency
Jun 18, 2020
After the Supreme Court recognized protections for sexual orientation and gender identity in federal law this week, Catholic employers shouldn’t assume they will be protected from future lawsuits, says the Catholic Benefits Association.
Bearing Witness as a Catholic Employer
As seen in Legatus
June 2018
The most distinctive thing about the American founding was its protection of religious freedom. This protection was embodied in the Constitution and, subsequently, in hundreds of statutes and ordinances that accommodated or exempted religiously-conscientious individuals and organizations. As late as 1993, a unanimous House and 97 Senators enacted, and President Clinton signed, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.