I heard the word around the beltway that this was all Axelrods doing. If so it sure blew up in his face.
If anyone who can has the stomach to watch or listen, please report. Thank you in advance for your sacrifice.
Obama has the blessing of the Catholic health association.
Instead, the new approach puts the burden on insurance companies, ordering them to provide workers at religious-affiliated institutions with free family planning if they request it, without involving their employer at all, the White House said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/10/us-usa-contraceptives-idUSTRE8181MX20120210
HOW is this any better? So he is going to force insurance plans, purchased by Catholic-affiliated organizations, to provide for day after pills etc. HOW is this better?
Sounds like a lob back into the Bishops’ court.
Standing by to see what kind of return volley they come up with. Anything less than “Nuts” is a Catholic cave-in.
Anyone have an online link to the announcement?
And officials said Obama has the legal authority to order insurance companies to provide free contraception coverage directly to workers. He will demand it in a new rule.
The emperor has spoken.
Time to get Mittens’ opinion on this. He must speak out about it. The electorate wants to know. How does Romneycare deal with this?
This “compromise” is unacceptable.
The most evil argument of the libs is that female contraception protects female “health”.
When in fact unprotected female sex (no male condom) is a huge STD risk, STD’s are related to cancers, etc. AND the pill is known to endanger women with cancer, strokes, etc.
They care nothing for womens’ health. It’s just part of their “vision” that every woman be free to screw like a slut without family so as to destroy society.
Meanwhile, any action to prevent women from piling up government benefits by deliberately having multiple unwed pregnancies?
The liberals are very very sick people.
Accommodation?
Try edict.
Wonder if anyone in the White Hut happened to contemplate 1) self-insured groups or 2) fees paid by religious institutions to insurance companies will now pay for the extra work the insurance companies must do w/ respect to abortions and birth control.
Surely they have the spin ready for these objections, too.
I would have expected the bamster to have walked this all the way back, only to restore it late in the afternoon of 21st of Jan 2013. You know, right after they drag their hung-over a$$es out of bed from the all night re-immaculation parties.
They need to get the “social justice” loving priests and bishops back on their side. If this does it then we know that this whole kerfluffle was only a show, and not based on any true religious beliefs or standards.
Once again the whole problem is Barack Obama or his liberal clones, deciding what every policy in America must have and what everyone must buy.
Zero competition. Zero common sense. And mark my words when they decide birth control wrappers harm the environment or whatever the heck is next, they will ban coverage for this,
Or more likely they will ban the “too expensive” life saving procedures that are “denying poor women contraceptives”.
It implies that the Catholic objection is about money and that Catholics can be bought off.
It’s like that old joke that ends, “We’ve established what you are, we’re just talking price now.”
We know who really has religious freedom...