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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Obama’s “compromise” is just a shell game. “Obamacare” itself is just a shell game. It’s all about more government control over the everyday lives of “We the people…”, nothing less and nothing more. Anyone who believes otherwise needs to explain why an alleged healthcare program also regulates college student loans.
Well, Bishops, STICK TO YOUR GUNS! Do not cave to this “solution” for it is only a game, a move that allows him to lull you and us, into a false security just long enouigh to assure him of reelection and then this will turn on you and bite you on the tails of your robes. You, us and all CHRISTIANS, the TRUE CHRISTIANS, ones who beleive that all have the right to choose RIGHT FROM WRONG! I am pro choice, but I am PRO choice in the manner of it is our CHOICE to adhere to our beleifs that some things are WRONG, no matter what the “laws” of man may say or demand that we do. This latest lie from the Liar in Office is only that, A LIE AND IT IS AS FALSE AS THE REST OF HIS LIFE! He is a threat to all Americans, be they white or black, or hispanic. His “healthcare” is just a symptom of the threat, for HE AND CONGRESS AND THE ENTIRE SUPREME COURT ARE THE REAL THREATS TO AMERICA AND OUR WAY OF LIFE!! Do not allow him to beguile you, please, Bishops, do not allow this! Satan comes in many forms, and this one is just one of his forms, come to deceive the many, and cause the downfall of more, into a hell of his and their own making. For once, I agree with the Catholics, I am not a Catholic, but they do still have a few morals left……….The child abuse scandal hurt you badly, please do not allow this to be the straw that breaks the proverbial “camel’s” back! This is a LIE FROM THE FATHER OF LIES VIA HIS SERVANT, Barrack Hussain Obama. Muslimes lie to acheive their own ends, their UNholy book allows this, even commands it of them! This “man” is a muslime, never doubt that one thing, for to do so, is at your own peril, and ours also! He is NO CHRISTIAN, his “fruit” is the proof of this fact. He is your enemy, and the enemy of all Americans, black and white! Catholic and Protestant and any other religions, with the one exception of muslimes, for it is his agenda to remake our country into another islamic, islimic, hellhole! And, I DO MEAN HELL HOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!