Opinions are flying over at the Commonweal blog. At NCR on Monday, Fr. Richard McBrien addressed some issues raised in June 4 Commonweal article on the U.S. bishops and health care reform. The article, "Episcopal Oversight," was written by Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, a professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law.
Over on The Public Discourse blog, Professor Helen Alvaré of George Mason University issued A Health Care Challenge to Commonweal and Timothy Jost. She says Commonweal and Jost "need to reassess their arguments about health care and abortion."
Today back on the Commonweal blog, Jost answers Alvaré and issues his own challenge. Alvare's argumentation, Jost says, "seems to have more to do with opposition to the Affordable Care Act than with opposition to abortion."
