Biden’s Attack on Religious Liberty Could Leave Millions Without Healthcare

Cultural elites long have been skeptical of the reach of religious freedoms, let alone faith-based care. But their hostility toward these institutions has never been a coordinated effort until recently.

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PITTSBURGH — L. Hafer of the Pittsburgh Daily Post paid a visit way back on June 9, 1847, to Mercy Hospital, the Catholic hospital begun by the Sisters of Mercy, a religious congregation founded in Ireland. The hospital had just opened its doors four months earlier in a former concert hall smack in the middle of the city on the cusp of transitioning from a frontier outpost to a major industrial hub.

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