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.

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[Clump]

The challengers should use the Hobby Lobby case to challenge the infringement of their religious freedom.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I hear you. Open to interpretation. Perhaps this whole list rolled over and there are only two that Brown has to force to accept the abortion mandate. Shameful.

[NKP_Vet]

Let’s not forget that sorry SOB Jerry Brown calls himself a Catholic. What a pathetic joke is he. Some big time explain’ to man above when his days on this earth are over.

[BilLies]

Thank Chief Justice Roberts, (a Roman Catholic according to Wikipedia) for this. Not to be forgotten is Roman Catholic Chief Justice Taney of the Dred Scott decision.
Nice Work guys.

[Rich21IE]

Honestly,
do you really think he’ll be given any time to explain himself.

I don’t.

[realcleanguy]

Left Wingers chipping away at the bill of rights. The ballot box revolution is obsolete. This is a call to arms. Time to demonstrate to the Left Wing we have tolerated, given in and compromised far too much. The Left Win used vicil disobedience for years. We need to do the same thing

[Gay State Conservative]

SCOTUS

[Gay State Conservative]

Last time I hear Jerry Brown is Buddhist

Last I heard he was an atheist masquerading as a Buddhist.

[Dick Vomer]

we are all going to have to draw the line. It's going to get personal and probably work out badly for us Catholics. At least in this life. But really, it's going to end badly for these cynical, lying, evil little worshipers of the dem party and the socialist. They are building their own prisons and putting in to place the very things that will kill them in the end.

The first ones lined up against the walls are the "true believers", because they are the most dangerous and expect the most from the "system". YOu can see it now in Ferguson and all across the country. Those that sold their souls for the government nipple are now enslaved in poor education, no work skills and live from government handout to handout to crime to jail or death. It's just sad to see how foolish and idiotic the libs are.

[IronJack]

My daughter goes to Santa Clara. That is one of them. The other one is in San Diego if I recall ...

[Salvation]

They can’t do that.

Paging Thomas More Law School.

[normbal]

“Jerry Brown has decided to force two Catholic universities to cover abortion in their health insurance.”

Hey, relax. It’s not like abortions are MANDATORY anywhere in the US.

Yet.

[huldah1776]

“...basic death care service.”

[WashingtonSource]

Bump

[MeshugeMikey]

[MeshugeMikey]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3196039/posts?page=38#38

[5th MEB]

Don’t forget NASTY PELOUSEY, she is supposedly a Catholic to.
NO; her last name is not misspelled, she is a blood sucking parasite.