California Forces Catholic Universities to Pay for Abortions for Their Employees

Life News ^ | August 22, 2014 | Steven Ertelt

[NYer]

I told you this was coming. Now, Jerry Brown has decided to force two Catholic universities to cover abortion in their health insurance.

From the San Francisco Chronicle story:

Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration has reversed an earlier decision to allow two Catholic universities to eliminate coverage of most abortions for employees, saying state law requires health insurance plans to cover all abortions…

Urged by abortion-rights groups and university employees to reconsider the issue, Brown’s Department of Managed Health Care, in letters to be sent Friday to insurers for both universities, said the exclusions violate a 1975 state law that requires group health plans to cover all basic services – defined, by the law, as those that are “medically necessary.”

“Abortion is a basic health care service,” the department’s director, Michelle Rouillard, said in the letter.

Religious freedom means nothing to those who wish to use health care to impose their secularist world view on everyone.

One more point: Over at First Things, I have a piece about how “pro-choice” is fast becoming “pro-abortion.” Here is the conclusion, which I ask you to ponder in connection with the California authoritarianism:

I expect that in the coming years abortion rights supporters will execute a tactical retreat that admits the humanity of the unborn, conjoined with a strong counter-offensive dismissing the moral relevance of that biological fact. What matters, advocates will increasingly assert, is the state’s guarantee that women’s reproductive desires are fulfilled—with abortion viewed as a positively good way of doing so.

Can I call them, or can I call them?

What starts in California doesn’t stay in California. Forced abortion coverage will be the next front in the war against religious freedom.

[SevenofNine]

There another story that he became PETA supporter and Hindu

There is health club that Jerry Brown used go when he was Mayor of Oaktown dude used to do yoga

[SuziQ]

The universities should simply say “no”.

[dsc]

"Brown is a former Jesuit seminarian, so we know where at least one Catholic stands."

Yeah, and Timothy McVeigh used to be a Catholic, too.

And don't forget that *everyone* who did *anything* bad in the centuries leading to the protestant heresy was a Catholic, so we can drag them in, too.

Here's a joke for you:

There were a couple of merchants who were friends, one a Catholic the other a Jew, and they were in constant discussions as to the superior nature of their chosen religions.

At the time--around the 13th century--Christianity was on the rise, and the Jewish merchant was constantly amazed at the stream of conversions. The two friends attempted to convert each other, but neither could succeed.

When on one occasion the Jewish man was planning a trip to Rome for business, he told his Catholic friend in a bit of an joking way that if what he found in Rome could convince him of the superiority of the Catholic church, he would convert.

Upon hearing this, the Catholic man was fraught with fear, as the Rome of that period was as corrupt as could be. Bishops and Priests were selling dispensations and indulgences, while themselves participating in drunken debauchery and whoring. However, the Catholic merchant said nothing about this to his friend, hoping that he might not observe such things during his trip.

The Jewish merchant made his trip, and upon his return came to his friend and stated that he would convert to the Catholic Religion. His friend was perplexed, and asked what had been the determining factor. The Jew then went on to describe the worst excesses of a corrupt era. The Catholic man was shocked at what he heard, and asked his friend why he would want to convert in the face of such corruption. The Jewish man said, “Only through divine intervention could the Church survive the depredations of such corrupt men.”

[icwhatudo]

Jesuits, its always the Jesuits

[Gene Eric]

I better understand your point.

And I agree about the dependency trap — a Stockholm syndrome of sorts.

[itsahoot]

I gather hey will drop health care completely and take the obozofine.

They can always close them down and move to a sane State.