Posted on 08/23/2014 6:20:28 AM PDT by EBH
The Obama administration announced on Friday a new accommodation for religious nonprofits that object to covering the full range of contraceptives in their employee health care plans.
The new accommodation will allow religious nonprofits, such as Catholic schools and hospitals, to opt out of covering birth control by notifying the Department of Health and Human Services of their objections. HHS and the Department of Labor will then arrange for a third-party insurer to pay for and administer the coverage for the nonprofits' employees so that women still receive the contraceptive coverage guaranteed to them by the Affordable Care Act.
“Women across the country deserve access to recommended preventive services that are important to their health, no matter where they work,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell. “Today’s announcement reinforces our commitment to providing women with access to coverage for contraception, while respecting religious considerations raised by non-profit organizations and closely held for-profit companies."
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Theoretically — I realize this is completely Ivory Tower thinking — but, theoretically, isn’t Congress supposed to write the legislation?
This is how the frog gets boiled - people get more and more used to the WhiteHouse writing laws.
So the taxpayers will be paying for the birth control and abortions. What if the taxpayers think both are a sin? Will they get a religious exemption from paying taxes?
Legisecutive Branch of government? I had no idea we had four?
There are no funds appropriated for this arrangement.
Why should they be an accomplice when they already have the SC decision on their side?
Yes, but Congress in it's "infinite wisdom" inserted language into Obamacare giving the President the power to implement the act. Implicit in the implementation language (and subject to much debate) was also the power to "adjust" the law to make it implementable.
Now, I remember reading that part of the law about a year ago and it was ambiguous enough that it seemed to allow Obama to make such proclamations and have them have the force of law.
I equated it to Congress doing the same thing in 2002 giving GW Bush the "authority" to conduct a war without actually voting on it themselves. Once again we have Congress skirting their Constitutional duty and ceding authority to the Executive Branch all the while crying "foul!" like a bunch of little girls.
Fact is, Republicans in Congress don't want to repeal Obamacare. They want the issue to run on.
Republican's are just as bad as the Democrats IMO.
We already are. We're paying for abortions too. None of this is new.
Not saying that's "right" because I'm opposed to it myself.
they will tax ... err, fine.... the employers to pay for it
bada bing
But it gets back to the old saw about Abe Lincoln: "If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have? 5? No -- It has 4 legs, because calling a tail a leg doesn't actually make it a leg."
The Constitution says that the Legislative branch writes the laws. Congress can pass Obamacare and invite Obama to make the laws, but that doesn't mean Obama can make the laws.
Unless, of course, we've chucked the whole Constitution thing as an impediment to Fundamental Change.
Abortion is a preventative service?
These evil bastards will stop at nothing to make the killing of innocents publicly funded.
May everyone pay the eternal price who has his or her hand on this, unless they truly repent and make amends for their transgressions.
Congress has already delegated most of its legislative power to the executive (the bureaucracies in the executive branch - EPA, DHS, FTC, SEC, OSHA, LRB, etc. ad nauseum).
These agencies enact more laws each year than Congress in one hundred.
That clause is a lie. Nothing in the Obamacare statute (called by the left by a part of its formal legislative name, which is itself a lie, "the Affordable Care Act") guarantees that insurance policies issued pursuant to the statute cover contraception. This "mandate" exists only because SecHSS Sebelius decided to poke a pointy-stick in the eye of the Latin church, using powers devolved to HHS by Congress, and define (the actuarially absurd) coverage of pharmaceutical contraceptives as a required part of such policies. A Republican administration, even without a Republican congress to repeal the monstrosity, could remove any requirement for insurance policies to cover contraception or abortion simply with a stroke of the pen by the new SecHHS.
Congress has already delegated most of its legislative power to the executive (the bureaucracies in the executive branch - EPA, DHS, FTC, SEC, OSHA, LRB, etc. ad nauseum).
These agencies enact more laws each year than Congress in one hundred.
We are so toast as a nation.
Theoretically — I realize this is completely Ivory Tower thinking — but, theoretically, isn’t Congress supposed to write the legislation?
As the libs used to say, “It is the law of the land.”
Seems Hussein thinks he can just change it as he pleases. Does he think he can change how many times a president can serve? Does he think he can change our immigration laws on his own? (yeah).
There really isn’t much need for the legislative branches of government when you have a president like Hussein.
WTF does that mean? Nothing is more important to the regime than taxpayers make sure women get birth control and abortions.
That means...whether you are a Christian or not, no matter what your belief, religion, etc. YOU WILL PAY FOR BIRTH CONTROL AND ABORTIONS via the tax code.
PS. This is why every Christian needs or needed to reject this law. Not just Nonprofits. If you are a Christian and paying for insurance either privately or through your employer...you are paying for abortion.
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