Dr. Jack Willke told LifeSiteNews, "Her untimely death removes from the world stage a gifted and hard working leader. She will be difficult to replace," he said.
'There are many things our country needs before we can even try to consider spending for contraceptives,” said Quirino Representative Dakila Carlo E. Cua.
The Obama administration's plan to force virtually all private insurers, including faith-based employers, to offer free abortifacient birth control is open for public comment until midnight tonight.
The woman, unnamed by court order, did become pregnant but subsequently had an abortion that resulted in her suffering a uterine infection that required medical treatment.
“The lack of respect for the beliefs of Catholic persons and institutions (and other men and women of good will) is startling and unprecedented in modern federal regulations,” said Msgr. Stuart Swetland.
Fr. Jenkins said that he "still stand[s] by that decision" to invite Obama, but criticized the mandate that will require most Catholic institutions to pay for all forms of contraception, including abortifacient drugs.
“Primary schools that make a principled decision not to teach sex education should not be stigmatised,"s aid Family Education Trust director Norman Wells.
The medical committee behind the federal government's impending birth control insurance mandate is populated by board members of NARAL and Planned Parenthood, as well as major donors to pro-abortion politicians.
Virtually all private health insurers will be forced to fully cover all FDA-approved birth control drugs, including drugs that can kill a newly-conceived child, as an essential "preventive service."