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Article: Catholics Support Healthcare Reform, Including Coverage for Abortion
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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To: RELIGION EDITORS
Contact: Agnes Sokol of Catholics for Choice, +1-202-986-6093
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to a new
poll of Catholic voters carried out by Belden Russonello and Stewart
for Catholics for Choice, Catholics support both a public option in
healthcare reform and a plan that would include funding for
abortion. The results show that the views of Catholics have been
seriously misrepresented by the US bishops and by conservative
Catholics in the debate over healthcare reform. A large majority of
those polled, 84 percent, attend church regularly, from several
times a week to a few times a year.
While Catholic voters are split on President Obama's ...