Posted on 02/19/2012 11:57:33 AM PST by Kaslin
Guess who was a key player in pushing through the birth control mandate in ObamaCare? Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards. According to reports, not only did Obama listen to Richards, but took her word over the suggestions his top advisers, including Vice President Joe Biden, then Chief of Staff Bill Daley and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. According th ABC's Jake Tapper, there was an internal debate about the contraception mandate at the White House.
The debate within the White House on this issue was, sources say, heated, and President Obama was legitimately torn. Panetta wasn’t alone in his concerns. For months, Vice President Joe Biden and then-White House chief of staff Bill Daley argued internally against the rule, sources tell ABC News. Biden and Daley didn’t think the rule was right on either the policy or the politics, sources said. Joshua Dubois, head of the Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, also expressed concern.
The policy was wrong, the two Catholic men, Biden and Daley, argued, saying that the Obama administration couldn’t force religious charities to pay for something they think is a sin.But Biden and Daley faced a strong group making the case for the rule within the administration – including Catholics such as senior adviser David Plouffe and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, senior White House advisers Valerie Jarrett and Pete Rouse, and then-domestic policy council director Melody Barnes. Others outside the White House also pushed hard for the rule, including former White House communications director Anita Dunn, Senators Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Planned Parenthood Federation of America president Cecile Richards. (Some of the details of this internal division were first reported yesterday by Bloomberg’s Mike Dorning and Margaret Talev.)
LifeNews makes this point:
Note that liberal feminists and the abortion lobby carried more sway with Obama than his higher ranking male advisers. Recall Barnes is a former Planned Parenthood Action Fund and EMILY’s List board member and also a former lobbyist for the Center for Reproductive Rights. We all know how tied into the abortion industry Sebelius is. Obama has surrounded himself with radical pro-abortion feminists.
Comforting to know the President of the United States is taking his advice from people who believe in Planned Parenthood, an organization founded to "Stop the Multiplication of the Unfit."
Nice topic for a GOP campaign ad ...
Cecile is Ann “Ma” Richards’ lesbian daughter. This twisted apple didn’t fell far from that diseased tree. Ann Richards met with Hillary a few days before Janet Reno ordered the burning to death of 22 children in Waco. These women kill children, born or unborn, for the good of the Democrat Party.
What I see in the future is a Planned Parenthood Base in every school in the Country paid for by us.......Unless we can reverse the gross immorality of our adults in this regard and the gay issue.
My thoughts too.
I would bet that Obama wasn’t so much swayed by the people who wanted this ruling as the fact that he wanted it himself and just sought to spread the blame.
Sebelius is no Catholic that’s for sure. It is interesting to note that Biden and Daley at least have some idea of what the Constitution is.
This doesn’t make sense:According to reports, not only did Obama listen to Richards, but took her word over the suggestions his top advisers, including Vice President Joe Biden, then Chief of Staff Bill Daley and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
And then this:But Biden and Daley faced a strong group making the case for the rule within the administration – including Catholics such as senior adviser David Plouffe and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, senior White House advisers Valerie Jarrett and Pete Rouse, and then-domestic policy council director Melody Barnes.
Was Sebelius for it or against it, They have her going both ways. Come to think of it she probably does go both ways.
So is this article saying that obama makes the decisions on mandates included in the health care law? Our insurance mandates for health care provisions are now being decided by the executive branch? It was bad enough that some 16 person panel was to decide this crap, but now it’s just obama doing all the deciding?
hey, they’re the nation’s top baby killers. if you wants to know how to do it, you bring in the experts (and you pays ‘em well).
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So the good “Catholics” in the regime opposed should have resigned. Let them rot.
Can you spell dictator?
Fatherless.
Commie mommie.
Radical Big Mama.
What do you expect?
bump!
Richards previously founded and served as president of America Votes, a coalition of national Democratic Party-affiliated organizations. Before that, she was deputy chief of staff to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Leader in the U.S. House of Representatives. She has also worked at the Turner Foundation
In 1996, she founded the Texas Freedom Network, a Texas organization formed to counter the Christian Right.
Richards is the daughter of the late Texas governor Ann Richards. She graduated from Brown University in 1980, is married to Kirk Adams, a labor organizer with the Service Employees International Union, and has three children. She currently lives in New York City.
October 20, 2011
In an interview published yesterday in the Oregon paper Williamette Week, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards was asked about her annual salary — nearly $400,000 — and why Planned Parenthood has shied away from publicly commenting on the widespread belief that such an amount is a bit extravagant for the head of a non-profit organization that receives over $360 million of your tax dollars annually.
Richards’ answer: “I work hard for my salary.”
She continued her dismissive response by proclaiming, “Planned Parenthood is the most cost-effective provider of family planning services in this country.”
http://prolifeaction.org/hotline/2011/richards/
Planned Parenthood would appear to have become the effective Government of this Republic. If they are able to lobby successfully to have this mandate enacted, what else can they get?
And it raises the question. What is the nature of the ‘Enabling Law’ that has granted the executive the enormous power over institutions and lives, which is now in place? This is the real argument against Obamacare. It has already shown that it is the vechicle of totalitarian aggression. Obama also consulted with PP and with some ‘Catholics’but not with the bishops. It is evident also that Obama has nothing but contempt for the Catholic, which of course would reflect the hatred of PP and its founder Margaret Sanger.
“They came for the Catholics . .”
Like mother like daughter. Wonder how much money she makes???
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