Obama Administration Mandates Catholic Agencies Cover Early Abortion Drugs and Education

–Leftist Catholics Mum or Supportive
by Matt Bowman
posted August 2, 2011

Today the Obama administration’s pro-abortion HHS Department mandated, as expected, that most employers including most Catholic agencies cover early abortion drugs like “ella” which acts after implantation, and also other abortifacients, sterilization, and contraception. It even forces Christian and pro-life groups to pay for “counseling” in favor of such anti-life activities, even if their mission is to oppose those same ideas. Of course, any Catholic trying to conduct his business with moral integrity will also be forced to cover such embryo-killing and anti-fertility “care” in health insurance.

The administration included a phony “conscience” exception that is so narrow and contradictory that it includes very few pro-life or Catholic agencies, schools, hospitals or the like. Christian social service providers and advocacy organizations by their very nature seek to serve all of society. But the “exception” doesn’t apply to you unless you primarily serve people with your religious beliefs. The Obama administration is forcing entities who serve the poor to kick non-Catholics out on the street if they don’t want to pay for embryo-killing. The Obama administration is forcing Catholic health providers to refuse life-saving treatments to Jews if they don’t want to pay to kill embryos. The Obama administration is forcing Catholic schools educational groups to preach only to the choir and not admit non-Catholics if they don’t want to pay to kill embryos.   the rest