Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ (USCCB) Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, has again spoken out aganst the abortion expansion in President Obama’s health care legislation, calling the bill “seriously deficient” on the issue of mandated coverage and funding of abortion. Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver also issued a call to action urging Catholics to tell legislators that only a bill that excludes abortion is acceptable health care reform. In an August 11 letter to the U.S. House of Representatives, Cardinal Rigali criticized the bill for delegating to the Secretary of Health and Human Services “the power to make unlimited abortion a mandated benefit in the ‘public health insurance plan’ the government will manage nationwide.” He called this a “radical change” since federal law excludes most abortions from federal employees’ health benefits, and no federal health program mandates coverage of elective abortions.