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Biden HHS Pick Sued Nuns Over Contraception Mandate
Fox News ^ | 12/7/20 | Sam Dorman

Posted on 12/12/2020 5:17:42 PM PST by marshmallow

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is no stranger to controversy

President-elect Biden has chosen a secretary of Health and Human Services who sued to block a policy that would have exempted nuns from Obamacare's contraception mandate, provoking even more scrutiny over how Biden's Catholic faith influences his political agenda.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra sued the Little Sisters of the Poor, a religious order that runs homes for the elderly poor, as they tried to defend the exemption. The case -- State of California v. Little Sisters of the Poor -- made it to the Ninth Circuit but the Supreme Court ultimately sided with the nuns in a similar challenge from Pennsylvania.

As HHS secretary, Becerra would oversee a department that conservatives praised under President Trump for making strides to defend religious liberty and hinder abortion access.

In 2017, Becerra argued that “Donald Trump wants businesses and corporations to control family planning decisions rather than a woman in consultation with her doctor. These anti-women's health regulations prove once again that the Trump Administration is willing to trample on people’s rights."

“What group of Americans will they target next? Will they allow businesses to deny you cancer treatment? Will they exclude you from insurance coverage because of a pre-existing health condition? The California Department of Justice will fight to protect every woman’s right to healthcare, including reproductive healthcare," he said.

On Monday, a swarm of conservative groups criticized Biden and warned about the impact of his nominating Becerra.

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1 posted on 12/12/2020 5:17:42 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

I wonder if he considers his decisions as “pay back” for when the nuns whacked his knuckles when (if) he went to a Catholic elementary school?


2 posted on 12/12/2020 5:22:25 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: marshmallow

Why is forcing nuns to pay for birth control so important?


3 posted on 12/12/2020 5:26:17 PM PST by Toespi
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To: Toespi

To show people that their subservience to the government is more important than their vows of Chasity to God.


4 posted on 12/12/2020 5:29:09 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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He’s being tapped for Biden’s Cabinet, but Becerra has yet to answer for
his outrageous conduct as a Congressman and House Democratic Caucus Chair.

Now California’s top law enforcer, Becerra knew, or should have known, US House policies are codified by law.
<><> House members are not allowed to accept services from people not on their payroll
<><> House employees are not permitted to log onto servers of members for whom they do not work.
<><> No scenario exists where the Awan clan’s access was even remotely appropriate.
<><> Many House set-ups were “thin clients” (computers optimized for establishing remote connections w/ servers based elsewhere).

In 2016, the Pakistani Awan clan (suspected of being spies) worked as numerous House Democrats’ ITs
and used Becerra’s Democratic Caucus computers in anomalous ways:
<><> Authorities say Becerra’s entire Democratic Caucus server physically disappeared while being monitored by L/E.
<><> The Awans were using the House Democratic Caucus as their central service warehouse.
<><> The Awan clan collectively logged onto Becerra’s Caucus system 5,735 times, some 27 times per day
<><> Falsely logging onto Becerra’s laptop as system administrators.
<><> Changing their identities.
<><> Logging onto Cong Becerra’s server using 17 different user account credentials
<><> Some credentials the Paki’s used belonged to House Democrats.
<><> The Pakis did no IT work for 9 of the 17 offices to which these user accounts belonged.
<><> Investigations found “possible storage of sensitive House information” outside the House.
<><> Dropbox was installed on two Democratic Caucus computers used by the suspects.
<><> Two user accounts had thousands of files in their Dropbox folder on each computer.
<><> Using Dropbox is against House rules because it uploads files offsite.
<><> The Wash/Po reported “Based on the file names, some of the information is likely sensitive.”
<><> House computer set-ups were found to be portals to an outside computer.
<><> Awans were using terminal servers from a computer in a different location.
<><> Virtual Private Networks can make a server’s hard drive appear to be local to a computer.
<><> Remote sessions remained active for months at a time.
<><> Data was always out of [the members’] possession
<><> Other Democrat offices were accessed in total less than 60 times.
<><> The pattern of login activity suggests steps were taken to conceal the Pakis’ suspect activity.
<><> The aggregation of multiple members’ data would mean all that data was taken when the Paki’s absconded.


5 posted on 12/12/2020 5:43:26 PM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: GreyFriar

Everything will be about control and submission from now on. Freedom is gone.


6 posted on 12/12/2020 6:13:38 PM PST by madison10 (Maranatha!)
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To: madison10
Everything will be about control and submission from now on. Freedom is gone.

Everything IS NOW about demonic influences on leaders in government, business and industry, media, churches, Hollywood, legal systems, military, health care and of course education. True freedom rests with our relationship with Jesus Christ and most don't have a clue what they can experience. This world IS NOT our home and technically we are still here to spread the Gospel . . . the last person to accept Christ as his or her personal Savior has yet to do so . . .only God knows who and when.

7 posted on 12/12/2020 7:01:49 PM PST by Maudeen (If you were to die in the next few minutes, where will you spend Eternity? Worth thinking about.)
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To: Toespi
Why is forcing nuns to pay for birth control so important?

If you think about it, they went after them because bullies like to do that. The nuns were an easy target.

8 posted on 12/12/2020 7:08:39 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: Maudeen

Agree absolutely.


9 posted on 12/12/2020 7:17:02 PM PST by madison10 (Maranatha!)
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