The disputes on healthcare restructuring in Congress has resulted in a division within the Catholics all over the country, including South Florida.

On one side, the Catholic bishops stressed on the unborn, and on the other hand, the Catholic nuns were in support of the already-born. President Obama’s healthcare reform plan has been opposed by the bishops saying not much is done to take care against people’s money used for abortion, while the nuns have backed up the plan.

Only in the last 20 years, US bishops have taken up a yearly assortment to compensate for essential health insurance for nuns. Hence, the nuns feel that they do not have much to lose even by challenging the Bishops.

The bill says that people who are given national funding to purchase major policies also could individually buy insurance that will cover abortion if they use their money. They say no one receiving funding be supposed buy abortion coverage.

The U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops stated, "As the moral authority to all Catholic faithful, instructs that health care reform should provide access to affordable and quality health care for all, and not advance a pro-abortion agenda in our country”.

The present topic is being discussed to awaken a 10 year old scandal in the U. S. church that has exposed hundreds of instances of sexual abuse of minors by priests and the failure of bishops to fight those crimes.