CMF CURO hosts press panel in Washington D.C.
The CMF CURO Team hosted a press panel and breakfast at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C. on November 2 to discuss health, the presidential election, and religious liberty in health care.
A unique panel of doctors, journalists, lawyers, and policy makers spoke about these issues in order to motivate the public and those in elected office to take action about health care in America.
National Review Online editor-at-large Kathryn Jean Lopez moderated the panel, which included Matt Bowman of Alliance Defending Freedom, Dr. Lester Ruppersberger, president of the Catholic Medical Association, Dr. Marguerite Duane of Georgetown University Medical School, and Louis Brown, director of CMF CURO.
Brown said that CMF CURO is “a holy revolution in health care.” “This is our credibility: when doctors weigh in on health care issues,” Lopez said as she announced Drs Duane and Ruppersberger.
“A woman’s reproductive health is not a disease,” Duane said, after sharing her own journey towards becoming a family physician. “Birth control is a drug given to healthy women to put them in a diseased state. Health insurance does not equal health care.”
“This forum begins the process within the church of reforming health care,” Ruppersberger said.
Bowman spoke about freedom of speech, religious liberties in the states, and the recent assisted suicide legalization in the District.
“Society is always trying to make the physician into the killer,” Bowman said.
Nevertheless, Brown echoed a tone of hope and encouragement.
“We are a people of freedom, a people of life,” he said. “We hope Americans across the country will bring these things to bear in the months ahead.”
Watch a video of the panel here and read other press from the event on our “In the News” tab.
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