We're not saying we had anything to do with this, but last night Credo's webmaster tweeted the editor of the St. Louis Review saying that he'd love to be able to link stories on conscience rights into Credo's website, but that they'd vanish behind their paywall after a week, making our links die. This morning there was a tweet from him saying that all their articles on this topic can be accessed here, and they won't go behind the paywall. This is terrific news: the Review has written a number of great articles we'd love to be able to share and comment upon. Be sure to thank the editor Teak Phillips for making this available.The first thing we call your attention to is Archbishop Carlson's letter dated 1-February in which he calls on us to fast and pray in the intention that our right might be respected by the government, and to educate ourselves on the issue. The USCCB has a resource here. St. Louis native, USCCB President, and Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan has a video on this page calling on us to action and telling us "we can't afford to strike out on this one."
Archbishop Carlson: "The fact that the responsibility is now on the insurance companies is simply a matter of semantics. It does not appear that there is any substantive change from the original regulation requiring health plans sponsored by religiously affiliated entities to provide contraceptives, sterilizations and abortion inducing drugs to which we have objected." Read more at http://stlouisreview.com/article/2012-02-10/statement-archbishop
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