Massachusetts’s Caritas Christi to cover abortions?

Today’s LifeNews reports that Massachusetts healthcare provider Caritas Christi is set to cover abortion costs as it joins with Centene Corporation in a new Commonwealth health care plan called CeltiCare.

According to the Catholic Action League, CeltiCare Health Plan of Massachusetts says on its website that all three of its Commonwealth Care plans will include abortion coverage.  If true, this would mean that the six hospitals affiliated with the Archdiocese of Boston will be ‘promoting abortions’. 

The LifeNews article states in part (emphasis mine):

Celtic Group, a subsidiary of Centene Corporation, also lists on its web site names of ‘Family Planning and Reproductive Services Providers’, including the nation’s largest abortion business, Planned Parenthood, to which it will refer plan members.

The Catholic Action League called the revelations ‘final and conclusive proof that Caritas Christi will be a participant in state subsidized abortions.’

‘This is the fourth time since February 26th that the Caritas/Centene partnership has indicated that abortion will be part of its Commonwealth Care contract,’ CAL executive director C. J. Doyle told LifeNews.com. ‘The question of Caritas Christi’s involvement in practices which violate fundamental Catholic moral teaching has now been answered repeatedly and definitively.

‘Four officials of Caritas Christi serve on the board of a health maintenance organization (jointly founded by Caritas and its partner Celtic Group) which will refer women to Planned Parenthood for taxpayer funded abortions, as part of a government program which requires abortion coverage,’ Doyle continued.

The joint effort sees Caritas and Centene provide government-subsidized health insurance in Massachusetts.

CeltiCare confirmed that the new joint venture is to be operational by July 1.  The Catholic Action League is concerned that the Archdiocese is not doing more to prevent this.  If you want to have a say, details are located at the end of the article here.

Christianity held to ransom

How is it that the more concessions Christian churches grant to the State, the shriller the secularist voices get?

Over the years, we’ve had clergy from many churches practically embrace many of the causes of the day, yet, it makes no difference to the secularist.

Wouldn’t the normal response be, ‘Hey, great, thanks — you’ve seen the point we were trying to make, so now we’ll ease up.’ 

But, instead, the criticism gets worse. They never stop harping.  Every day, there’s something else Christian churches must do.  Various denominations are supporting:

• LGBTs through to the point of ordination 
• Social justice issues
• The environment
• Marxism
• Abortion
• Freer immigration
• Immigrant communities with social help and church services
• More open attitudes in many cases towards sex, teenage pregnancy, family structures and drug abuse.

What more can we do? 

What about other religions?  Many hold more conservative viewpoints than Christian denominations do, yet they seem exempt from secularist opprobrium.  Why is that?

It’s as if there is some negative energy preying on the secularists’ minds urging them to keep hammering away at us. 

I don’t understand it, so if you do, please leave a comment. 

And, even if you don’t, I’d enjoy hearing from you!