Historically, European Catholic institutions have been legally recognized or legally suppressed, waxed and waned country-by-country on the basis of "concordats" (treaties between the country's bishops, or the Vatican, and the individual country.) Many institutions would be owned and run by religious orders, rather than dioceses or bishops per se.
This article from awhile back gives some perspective:
Thanks for the link, and taking the trouble.
I tried to google what the euro-state healthcare plans have done as concerns abortion/bc and what the Church has done about it. My google skillz once more fail me. Everything comes up Obamacare. I have no idea if they have exemptions for the coverage they provide(or if it is all public plans or whatever) or if they just pay their taxes that fund/perform abortions, pay the punishments for not doing it or have sold their institutions or what the deal is. I did find one blog where a few folks where asking the question for the same reason but no one ever replied. Seems to me it would be reasonable to think the Church will handle it in a similar manner here, whatever they did. I mean the have had state healthcare for a pretty long time over there in some of those places, and abortion has been legal in some of the countries for a while. Portugal has just legalized it a little bit ago, I found this:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2007/aug/07082907
Not too promising if that’s legit, but I suppose you could say that’s an isolated bishop’s fault, and it doesn’t reallty talk about insurance paying for it.
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