Catholic Connection – June 2, 2022 – Hour 2

Sr. Joseph Andrew visits us in-studio this morning to talk about the 2023 Good News Cruise. Julie Blake with Alliance Defending Freedom tells us about the Biden administration being sued for eliminating coverage of fertility awareness family planning.

Segment 1 – Intro and News

Segment 2 & 3 – Good News Cruise 2023
Sr. Joseph Andrew and Teresa promote the 2023 Good News Cruise coming up in January!

Sister Joseph Andrew Bogdanowicz, OP, is one of the four founders of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist in Ann Arbor, Michigan. As vocations director, she lectures on topics related to religious life and theology, speaking at youth conferences, parishes, to university students, religious women, priests, and seminarians.

Segment 4 – Biden admin sued for eliminating coverage of fertility awareness family planning
Dr. Cami Jo Tice-Harouff, a Texas nurse practitioner, is challenging the Biden administration for violating regulatory laws when it deprived women of required health insurance coverage for fertility awareness-based methods of family planning, leaving coverage of only contraceptive and abortifacient drugs and devices.

Julie Marie Blake serves as senior counsel for regulatory litigation at Alliance Defending Freedom. Over the last decade, she has been on the front lines of high-profile, precedent-setting cases challenging federal overreach in courts across the country. Blake served as deputy solicitor general for the state of Missouri from 2017 to 2020 and as assistant solicitor general for the state of West Virginia from 2013 to 2017. In these roles, she argued 26 federal and state appeals, including before the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. She received the Best Brief Award from National Association of Attorneys General for her U.S. Supreme Court advocacy.

More information on this case here