A New Mandate: The Poor Will Suffer

As you may have heard by now, the Health and Human Services Department has issued a mandate that all private health insurance plans must offer coverage for all FDA-approved "contraceptive services" without copay or deductible. "Contraceptive services" includes: sterilization, abortifacients, and contraception.This means that an employer must now, by law, pay for a plan that includes sterilization, abortifacients, and contraception. This is clearly a problem for those employers (and individuals for that matter) who morally object to sterilization, abortifacients, or contraception.This causes serious problems...

Problem 1: No Options for You

If you morally or religiously objects to sterilization, abortifacients, or contraception, you have no options for health insurance. All private and public plans will cover these things.If you are like me and want nothing to do with anything that causes an abortion because it takes a human life then you will be forced to pay for the destruction of human life in order to have health insurance.Basically the government wants to force you to choose between your life and health and the life of pre-born children.Actually, they don't want you to choose. Obamacare's individual mandate (if upheld in court) will force you to have to have a health insurance policy. So, if you are altruistic and are willing to give up your own health and life for the sake of the pre-born, you'll have to pay a fine to the government to be allowed to do that.

Problem 2: No More Religious Freedom

This is the problem that you've probably heard the most about. Religious run schools, hospitals and charitable institutions will be required to provide 'contraceptive services' with their insurance plans. As you know, many of these institutions are run by religious organizations (the largest of which is the Catholic Church) that explicitly teach as a tenant of morality that these services are contrary to their belief and practice.So much for the free exercise of religion...These institutions could be fined $2,000 per employee per year that they do not provide this government mandated insurance. For Catholic Charities, which has about 70,000 employees and serves about 10 Million poor people each year that amounts to $140,000,000 a year in fines just because they want to practice their religion (the practice of which happens to help 10 Million people a year!).Do you really think Catholic Charities can afford an extra $140 Million a year? The poor will suffer while suppliers of birth control get richer.In conclusion...

1. Your rights are being thrown under the bus.
2. Freedom of Religion is being thrown under the bus.
3. Millions of poor people served by religious organizations are being thrown under the bus.

With this type of power, it won't be long before direct abortions are mandated.With this type of power, the 'healthcare' lobbyists that can front the most money will get special governmental treatment at our expense.

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Thank you for standing with me for life, freedom and human dignity.P.S. It appears that the 'Compromise' put forth by President Obama is merely a rewording of the initial rule.