Grading Catholic colleges' health insurance plans
U.S. Catholic colleges have widely disparate levels of compliance with Church teaching when it comes to
faculty and staff health insurance plans -- with some offering artificial contraception, abortion, voluntary sterilization and other procedures that conflict with Church teaching in their plans...
Georgetown University provides plans with and without contraception and abortion, according to Julia Green Bataille, associate vice president for communications. Georgetown University's two plans that include abortion and artificial contraception are fully insured and therefore legally required to include state coverage guidelines, said Bataille. The District of Columbia, where Georgetown is located, does not mandate either contraception or abortion, according to a table compiled by the National Catholic Bioethics Center. Bataille said Georgetown benefit managers say because the plans are also licensed in Maryland and Virginia, states with contraceptive mandates, they must cover contraception. She did not explain why abortion is covered...
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