Abortion factor in grant denial reinforces need for conscience protections: In 2006, HHS awarded the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services a five-year $19 million grant for the express purpose of aiding those who have been victimized by human traffickers. The grant program had been established as part of an anti-trafficking law supported by the Southern Baptist's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, which has since been reauthorized. But in September the relief group’s grant renewal request was denied. At issue is the group’s refusal to support abortion services as part of assistance to trafficked persons.
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