'Without the stay granted today, we would have been in the position of being fined for failing to comply with the mandate,' Fr. Frank Pavone told LifeSiteNews.
'each individual abortion procedure is an explosive event in the lives of the mother and father and those closely connected to that decision,' says Fr. Frank Pavone.
'To ask a group of priests to cooperate in the government’s plan to expand access to birth control and abortion-inducing drugs is about as contrary to religious freedom as you can get,' says Father Frank Pavone.