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Posted on 07/11/2015 4:48:19 AM PDT by NYer
The victory was brief. Last year’s Supreme Court victory for Hobby Lobby has little meaning today, because the Obama Administration has just circumvented the law to extend contraceptive benefits to all.
And who’s paying for it? Why, you and I, of course, through our tax dollars!
By Bryancalabro (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsThe case involving the Green family’s Hobby Lobby stores went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court; and last June, the Court ruled that some private companies can be exempted, on religious grounds, from an Affordable Care Act requirement that employer-sponsored health insurance policies must cover contraception. The Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby, had objected to providing coverage for the morning-after pill because of their deeply held religious beliefs.
But on Friday, July 10, the Obama Administration issued its final rules for employers who morally object to covering birth control in their health insurance plans; and guess what? There’s an “accommodation” which ensures that all women, unless they work for a place of worship, will still get their free birth control–even if their employers refuse to pay for it.
Here’s how it works: Under the final rule, a for-profit company (such as Hobby Lobby) may still object to covering contraception in its health plan. The company would need to then write a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services, stating its objection. HHS will then enlist a third-party carrier to provide birth control coverage at no cost to the employees.
The justification for the accommodation is explained by Sylvia M. Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services:
“Women across the country should have access to preventive services, including contraception… At the same time, we recognize the deeply held views on these issues, and we are committed to securing women’s access to important preventive services at no additional cost under the Affordable Care Act, while respecting religious beliefs.”
But why, one might ask, does this Administration insist–even to twerking the legislation yet again–on providing free contraception, even and including the morning-after pill?
The cost for birth control pills, according to U.S. News and World Report, ranges from $15 to $50 per month. A cervical cap costs between $15 and $50, and lasts for approximately two years. Condoms are available at some health clinics for free; but even if a couple must pay for them, they typically cost between 20 cents and $2.50 apiece; so a couple who used a condom twice weekly would spend an average of $150/year.
But wait: Isn’t protection against life-threatening diseases more important than the promise of uninhibited sex with no risk of conception?
Apparently not, since there has been no government initiative to assist patients with heart disease or diabetes to pay for their life-saving medications.
Contrast the negligible cost of birth control for the uninsured with the much higher cost for medications to treat life-threatening diseases such as heart disease and diabetes.
This Administration has determined, for some reason, that the single most important health benefit, the one which Americans cannot do without, is free birth control.
The Catholic Church teaches that sex is a great good, but is intended only for married couples (one man and one woman). That’s because the sexual act was created by God with two purposes: the unitive (to bring the spouses closer together) and the procreative (the conception and raising of children in a family). A Catholic who accurately follows the teaching of his/her Church will oppose all forms of birth control, since all interrupt one of the purposes of sexual relationship–namely, the procreative.
Aside from that, though, there is an important distinction between pills which control birth (that is, prevent conception) and those which are abortifacients. Hobby Lobby’s employee benefits package has always included coverage for many different types of birth control, including:
Only four types of “birth control” were not covered in Hobby Lobby’s original employee benefit package: Plan B, which is also known as the “morning after pill,” Ella, another emergency contraceptive, Copper Intrauterine Device and IUD with progestin—forms of birth control that can cause abortion by preventing implantation of the fertilized ovum in the wall of the uterus.
Many, even those who disagree with the Catholic Church’s stance on other methods of contraception, agree that intentionally flushing a newly-conceived child down the toilet is wrong.
Catholics and many other Christians look to the Scriptures to find out what God thinks about the unborn child in these earliest moments after conception. In Jeremiah 1:5, God revealed that he had a plan for the prophet Jeremiah from his earliest days–in fact, from before his creation in the womb:
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
And in Psalm 139:13-14, the psalmist acknowledges God’s hand in his development, from the earliest moments of conception:
For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.
Ping!
Simply amazing. You’d think these ghouls wouldn’t want ANYONE on birth control to keep the money-making baby-killing machine in high gear!
Again, GHOULS!
We The People, in the best tradition of civil disobedience, should take a clue from Obama and ignore all unconstitutional laws and mandates he and his communist apparatchiks have foisted on the nation.
"We support our Moslem King, who made us EXEMPT,
over the voters and scum Americans
who deserve our IRS attacks them.
Now grovel low, and bow to your EXEMPT lords. Us."
No issue is ever “settled” until it’s settled the way liberals want it settled—then suddenly, it’s settled, and we’re all supposed to “move on” to the next issue that isn’t settled, because that next issue hasn’t been settled the way the liberals want it settled.
Psalm 139:21-22.
And the Republicans we put in there to stop this stuff FUND IT.
This is really old news.
Obama has circumvented many laws and will continue to do so he’s on a mission to CHANGE every law on the books his hate for the country runs deep and never ends.
Obama’s focus is the destruction of the family, basic Western Civilization and the establishment of power by a communist governing elite; thus the focus on abortion as one of its means to reaching those goals.
You KNOW he ain’t leavin Jan. 2017.
If a conservative tried to do an end run around the USSC the liberals would be accusing him of wantonly circumventing the laws of our country. You can just hear their self-righteous outcry: “This cannot stand”.
Whatever liberals want, they get. Whatever conservatives want is seen as selfish, harmful, and uncaring. /sarc
The purpose of the pill isn’t really about avoiding pregnancies and its definitely not about protecting against disease, as the article correctly points out.
Its about getting more dem voters.
How?
If they can increase sexuality and sexualize more women by removing any consequence of random free sex, they figure they will increase infidelity which will increase divorces ... Breaking more homes. This in turn will result in more kids either in poverty or just above. And whenever dems can get more people in need of govt assistance, they’re in favor of it... as any increase in the number of poor people is an increase in the dem voter base.
The third party is “Planned Parenthood” that will be contracted to provide free contraception for employees.
He is an evil man.
If Boehner or McConnell had any respect for the rule of law in this country, they would be on a soapbox loudly proclaiming what they intend to do about it.
They are the people in power who are allowing a ruthless, lawbreaking Executive Branch get away with it.
Moloch wont be denied what he was promised in obamacare, not when he has his worshipers in America in positions of great authority always ready to act on his behalf.
“Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.” Job 10:8-11
“And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Moloch” Leviticus 18:21
“I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.” Psalm 22:10
“From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb. I will ever praise you.” Psalm 71:6
“For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.” Psalm 139:13-16
“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5
“And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:” Luke 1:41
“As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.” Luke 1:44
“Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven” Matthew 18:10
“It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.” Luke 17:2
“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, “ Galatians 1:15
“And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.” Revelation 18:21
I agree. I can't picture him letting go. We still don't know everything that was built into that thousand-page bill that had to be signed as soon as he got into office.
I never thought I'd say this, but even Bill Clinton was a better potUS than this one. I do so envy the dead...
" 27And there followed him a great multitude of people, and of women, who bewailed and lamented him. 28But Jesus turning to them, said: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not over me; but weep for yourselves, and for your children. 29For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not borne, and the paps that have not given suck. 30Then shall they begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us; and to the hills: Cover us. 31For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry? "
--Luke 23
We just need to keep praying and focusing on God- IMHO, it's definitely going to get worse before God at last intervenes.
This is terribly wrong. Obama better watch out or people are going to be marching on Washington D. C.
**The third party is “Planned Parenthood” that will be contracted to provide free contraception for employees.**
No doubt with a reimbursement for each baby contracepted or killed.
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