The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement late on Friday declaring that the small alteration President Barack Obama had announced earlier in the day to a regulation that would force all health-care plans in the United States to cover sterilizations and all FDA-approved contraceptives–including those that cause abortion–is ‘unacceptable” because, among other things, it does not protect the freedom-of-conscience rights of secular for-profit employers, or secular non-profit employers, or religious insurers, or self-insured religious employers, or individual Americans.
The alteration President Obama described Friday says merely that insurance companies providing coverage to employees of religious institutions that object to sterilization, contraception or abortifacients will have to provide free coverage for these things to the employees rather than explicitly include them among the benefits covered by the premiums charged to the religious employer.
The regulation will still require individual Americans and private-sector employers to buy, and insurers to provide, insurance coverage that pays for sterilizations, contraception and abortifacients–even if doing so violates their religious beliefs.
Read more at CNSNews.com. By Terence P. Jeffrey.
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I first want to say that I am not a catholic, but Way to go my Catholic Brothers/Sisters, America is on your side, except a few. Now to get down to this idiotic decision that Obama has come up with. Let’s go back to the beginning of this whole debacale, if you can remember, when Obama first came on the job, he started to push this dumb Obamacare down the throats of every American alive, and if you can remember how America went after obamacare as if it was the Black death. There was comments, upon comments written against obamacare, all the way up to the voting process to the signing into obama law and beyond. But, before all that America had all these so called homegrown talks about America excepting obamacare, but having nothing but anger upon anger coming out against obamacare, yet our then Repesentative more or less stuck up their middle finger at the people and voted for it anyway. At that time, we can remember how Reid would not even listen to anyone who was against obamacare, and pelosi saying idiotic words like, “We must vote forit first in order to see what’s in it”, well folks this is just the beginning of what is in it, and it don’t look good on down the road. So, if we want to say anything else about obamacare we must first remember that all this crap is because the democrats would not listen to the people, and obama cared less about the people, and he still feels the same. And I could go on, and on, but I think you get my driff. Obama is not a freedom loving American, Obama is a communist down to his core, and all those who voted for him are getting what they deserves. I hope that those who still love Obama now see what obama is all about. It’s those dumb democrats.
“. . .if we want to say anything else about obamacare we must first remember that all this crap is because the democrats would not listen to the people, and obama cared less about the people, and he still feels the same.”
I agree 100%, and that is what’s so scary about the 40% of our population who STILL think Obama deserves a second term.