The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it will withhold at least $200 million in federal Medicaid funds from California in the first quarter of 2021 because the state is illegally forcing insurance companies and employers, including a Roman Catholic order of religious sisters, to cover abortion “without exclusion or limitation.” …OCR said California’s policy unlawfully mandates that all health care plans subject to regulation by the California Department of Managed Health Care pay for abortion without exclusion or limitation.
