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Protect the right of Catholic employers
Optimize the Catholic employment experience
Provide access to cost effective Catholic benefits
Lifting our voice.
When can a Catholic employer fire someone for not following Church teaching?
October 8, 2025
CNA interviews Martin Nussbaum, CBA legal counsel, on the challenging confluence of religious employers rights and employees who choose to not follow Church teachings.
8th Circuit delivers extensive relief from EEOC abortion, speech code mandates
April 17, 2024
Judge Traynor granted a permanent injunction to CBA prohibiting the Equal Employment Oppportunity Commission from enforcing its final rule on the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and its Workplace Harrassment guidelines against CBA members.
The PWFA final rule required employers to accomodate employees seeking abortion or in vitro fertilization. The harrassment guidelines mandated use of preferred pronouns and access to single-sex spaces for members of the opposite sex.
CBA wins permanent protection from transgender mandate
June 5, 2025
The Associated Press reports on CBA’s June 5, 2025 win against the transgender mandate for employers to cover and/or provide gender transition services in their health plans. Includes quotes from CBA legal counsel Martin Nussbaum.
New federal rules on abortion, transgender services may pose ‘existential threat’ to Catholic hospitals
As seen in America the Jesuit Review
April 5, 2022
Leadership at the Catholic Benefits Association believes the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will soon announce new regulations that may pose an existential threat to religious-based employers including Catholic hospitals.
HHS expected to propose health care rule on abortion, transgender services
By Tom Tracy
April 5, 2022
Leadership at the Catholic Benefits Association believes the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will soon announce new regulations that may pose an existential threat to religious-based employers including Catholic hospitals.
Gender agenda, conscience, and health care mandates
by Jim Graves
April 1, 2022
Colorado Springs Chapter Legate, Doug Wilson, Chief Executive Officer of the Catholic Benefits Association, is concerned.
In April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is expected to announce that organizations that provide their employees with health benefits packages must include coverage for both surgical abortions and a full range of transgender services.
Leading a Coalition in Defense of Religious Liberty
As seen in The Pulse of Catholic Medicine
Summer, 2021
Ten years have passed since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. This moment in American history marked a rapid increase in challenges facing Catholics as we live out our faith in the public square. In response, the Catholic Benefits Association (CBA) was founded to advocate for and litigate in defense of our members’ First Amendment rights to provide employee benefits in a manner consistent with the Catholic faith. CBA is comprised of a growing and diverse coalition of Catholic organizations.
Biden’s HHS vs. abortion common ground
As seen in the New York Daily News
November 30, 2021
Dec. 1 will see oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the most important abortion case in 40 years. And when Dobbs v. Jackson is decided this summer, the court will likely give more power to individual states to regulate abortion according to the democratic will of their people — rather than the will of nine unelected judges serving for life.
Here We Go Again: HHS’ New War on Religious Freedom
As seen in the National Catholic Register
November 24, 2021
At the time of Xavier Becerra’s confirmation, the Register warned his appointment as secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) posed a grave threat to the religious freedom of believers. We based that warning on a sober assessment of his disastrous political record in California, where he earned the notoriety of being possibly the most flagrant dissenter on abortion and “LGBT” issues of any Catholic in American public life.
HHS Plans New Rule to Mandate Health-Care Providers Comply With Abortion and Gender-Transition Agendas, With No Religious-Freedom Exceptions
As seen in the National Catholic Register
November 17, 2021
Recent court filings uncovered by the Catholic Benefits Association show HHS is working with activist groups to establish sweeping sex-discrimination regulations and dismantle the former Trump administration’s religious-liberty protections in health-care law.
CBA Confronts Fetal Tissue Research in Clinical Trials
As seen on the EWTN Global Catholic Network
Apr 24, 2020
Catholic Benefits Association legal counsel, Martin Nussbaum, discusses the clinical trials mandates using aborted fetal tissue and our work on behalf of our members to grant a religious exemption.
CBA Wins Permanent Injunctions Against Obama-era Transgender Coverage Mandate
January 20, 2021
In a major religious rights victory, a federal judge has ruled in favor of Catholic Benefits Association (CBA) and its members in their suit filed in 2016. The ruling gives declaratory and permanent injunctive relief against the HHS 2016 regulation interpreting Section 1557 of the ACA mandating insurance coverage for gender transition drugs and surgeries and enjoins the EEOC from issuing similar regulations or undertaking investigations or enforcement actions based on its interpretations of sex discrimination under Title VII.