Posted on 12/10/2014 11:00:37 AM PST by raptor22
Law: If there really is a "war on women," it's being waged against a group of nuns who seek to honor their call to serve the dying poor without being compelled to provide contraception coverage to those who help them.
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver heard oral arguments Monday in the lawsuit by the Little Sisters of the Poor challenging the ObamaCare abortion-inducing drug mandate that threatens religious liberty.
The case of the feisty nuns challenges a bizarre "accommodation" offered by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHS). Under its proposal, the Little Sisters can fill out a government form that notes their objection but that also gives the government authority to have someone else provide that coverage.
"What the government has done, and it's a strange thing to do, is say, 'The only way we'll accept our objection is if on the same piece of paper saying 'I object' you modify the plan to give someone else the authority to give out contraceptives on the plan," Mark Rienzi, senior counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, said at a press conference following the oral arguments.
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Since the government has long been in the handout business, such a thing shouldn’t even be necessary if in its wonderful wisdom it chooses to handout some bennie that the private sphere won’t.
Meaning, such a thing as this weird agreement. Want to give out free passes to abortion... you’re vile to do it, Obama, but you also don’t need the sisters’ sayso.
Sorry, sisters, but when the Catholic hierarchy got behind Obamacare and fell for the Stupak amendment, your fate was sealed.
State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added] Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Fact: the hierarchy didn’t support PPACA, with or without Stupak.
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