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<p style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">(CNSNews.com) - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) vowed today that she will join with the Obama administration in standing <img class="caption" src="images/stories/comradepelosi2.jpg" border="0" alt="Comrade Pelosi" title="Pelosi" hspace="7" align="right" />up against the Catholic Church in defending a new regulation that will require Catholic individuals to buy, and Catholic institutions to provide, health insurance plans that cover sterilizations and artificial contraceptives, including those that induce abortions.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Catholic church teaches that sterilization, artificial contraception and abortion are morally wrong and the Catholic bishops of the United States have argued that forcing a Catholic individual to purchase a health insurance plan that covers these things--or forcing a Catholic institution to provide such a plan--forces Catholics to act against their consciences and is a violation of the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion.</p>
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<p style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/pelosi-vows-stand-obama-against-catholic-church-says-decision-forcing-catholics-act">Click to read more at CNSNews.com &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>
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