Obama’s pre-Vatican overtures are a smokescreen
Descending in Italy today for the July 8-10 G8 Summit, President Barack Obama will move onto the Vatican for his first audience with the Pope on Friday. In advance of that meeting, Obama hosted a roundtable meeting with Catholic 
reporters and The Washington Post on July 2nd.
In that conversation, Obama asserted that he supported a “robust” conscience clause for hospitals and health care providers. The conscience clause would afford doctors, pharmacists and other medical professionals protection against forced participation in abortion procedures or the subscription of abortifacient drugs.
