Public Comment in Opposition to Requirements for Insurance Issuers to Include Transgender Procedures

Ensuring access to health coverage and health care, and removing barriers to these, is without question a laudable goal. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “Everyone has a right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family including … medical care,” thus acknowledging health care as a basic human right. Catholic teaching agrees. “Concern for the health of its citizens requires that society help in the attainment of living conditions that allow them to grow and reach maturity … [which includes] health care….” Catholic Catechism, no. 2288. Health care should be available to everyone and, toward that end, no one should be without health coverage nor discriminated against in that regard.

The Health Education and Relationships for Teens Study

NCBC Senior Fellow is one of 240 professional women advocating for the unborn before the US Supreme Court.

240 Women Scholars and Professionals, and Prolife Feminist Organizations in Support of Petitioners

NCBC Senior Fellow is one of 240 professional women advocating for the unborn before the US Supreme Court.

Brief of the Catholic Medical Association, The National Association of Catholic Nurses-USA, Idaho Chooses Life and Texas Alliance for Life as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners

NCBC Senior Fellow is one of 240 professional women advocating for the unborn before the US Supreme Court.

NCBC Recommends to U.S. HHS that Institutional Review Board Policies Stipulate Protections for Human Research Subjects who are Pregnant Women, Human Fetuses and Neonates, Prisoners, and Children

Document Identifier: OS–0990–New: Process, for proposed research involving: (1)
Pregnant women, human fetuses and neonates; (2) prisoners; or, (3) children, as subjects that
are not otherwise approval by an IRB. Specific focus of respondents on: the accuracy of the
estimated burden; and ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected.

NCBC joins three associations, committed to the wellbeing of the human person, to provide public comment in opposition to proposed womb transplant policies, especially policies allowing living donors.

Thank you for the opportunity to provide public comment on behalf of The National
Catholic Bioethics Center, the National Catholic Partnership on Disability, the Catholic Medical
Association, and the National Association of Catholic Nurses, USA. We wish to address the
Establish Membership Requirements of Uterus Transplant Programs proposed by the OPTN
Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA) Transplantation Committee. We wish to focus on the
following OPTN Bylaws changes:

NCBC Recommends to U.S. HHS that Institutional Review Board Policies Stipulate Protections for Human Research Subjects who are Pregnant Women, Human Fetuses and Neonates, Prisoners, and Children

Document Identifier: OS–0990–New: Process, for proposed research involving: (1)
Pregnant women, human fetuses and neonates; (2) prisoners; or, (3) children, as subjects that
are not otherwise approval by an IRB. Specific focus of respondents on: the accuracy of the
estimated burden; and ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected.