The Adoption Tax Credit: Progress and Prospects for Expansion
By Charles A. Donovan (Click here for the full PDF version of this report.) Introduction Since the mid-1990s Congress and a number of states have provided targeted tax relief for families that adopt...
View ArticleHopeful Signs in Contraceptive Mandate Cases
By Nadja Wolfe Last month, courts reviewed two requests for preliminary injunctions against the contraception mandate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). That is, two businesses which do not fit the...
View ArticleUpdate on Abortion Coverage Limitations: States Take Action
(Click here for full PDF version) Update on Abortion Coverage Limitations: States Take Action With the passage in 2010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the individual...
View ArticleMulti-State Health Plans: A Potential Avenue to Tens of Thousands of Publicly...
By Charles A. Donovan (Click here for full PDF version of this report) On January 1, 2014 state health exchanges, or the federal or “partnership” versions that will operate in their stead in a narrow...
View ArticleObamaClarity at Day 9: Abortion Coverage Still Opaque
By Charles A. Donovan and Genevieve Cervantes More than a week into the enrollment period for health insurance via the federal-state insurance exchanges, whether existing plan options include elective...
View ArticleAnniversaries and Obamacare
by Keiren C. Smith, M.D., November 4, 2013 Today is the one-year anniversary of the big surgery: 78-pound, five-foot-tall “M’, 87 years old and a feisty New York native, was operated on for tongue...
View ArticleSupreme Court Will Review Abortion Drug Cases
By Charles A. Donovan and Tom Messner Today the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will review two cases where the government is trying to force Christian-owned businesses to provide health care coverage...
View ArticleElective Abortion Coverage Information Still Elusive
By Genevieve Plaster and Charles A. Donovan From the beginning of the rollout of the federal and state websites displaying health insurance plans eligible for premium subsidies, the ability to identify...
View ArticleFederal Exchange Plans Still Obscure Abortion Information
On December 11, 2013, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, in response to a question from Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), testified on Capitol Hill that abortion coverage information in...
View ArticleThe Universal Core of Conscience
By Chuck Donovan On Tuesday of this week the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in two cases to decide whether private companies can refuse to comply with a federal mandate to supply health...
View ArticleCharlotte Lozier Institute Submits Brief in Hobby Lobby Case
By Thomas M. Messner Charlotte Lozier Institute submitted a “friend of the court” brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of abortion-related conscience rights. The Court recently heard arguments in...
View ArticleMarch for Life Steps Up Against ACA Mandate
By Nicole Saunders Last week, amidst the media flurry following the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in the Hobby Lobby case, another legal fight began to brew. As with the Hobby Lobby case, at the...
View ArticlePreventive Services Mandate Accommodation, 8th Edition, Falls Short
By Chuck Donovan Liberty can be explained in a handful of words; deprivations of liberty usually require thousands. That is the case with the latest iteration of the accommodations permitted under the...
View ArticleObamacare’s Second Year: Are Plans Really Segregating Abortion Funds?
By Genevieve Plaster Now, four and a half years since the Affordable Care Act’s passage and nearing the end of its first year of implementation, concerns over elective abortion coverage in health...
View ArticleGAO: 1000+ Obamacare Plans with Taxpayer-Funded Elective Abortion Coverage &...
By Genevieve Plaster The non-partisan congressional watchdog agency, Government Accountability Office (GAO), released a new report late September 15 confirming that: 1,036 federally subsidized plans...
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