A Washington Times news article, "White House: More changes to
contraception mandate coming" quotes a White House official
spinning the administration's latest feigned "accommodation" of the
Obamacare contraceptives and sterilization mandate:
"In light of the Supreme Court
order regarding Wheaton College, the departments intend to augment their
regulations to provide an alternative way for objecting nonprofit religious
organizations to provide notification, while ensuring that enrollees in plans
of such organizations receive separate coverage of contraceptive services
without cost sharing."
Translation: "It's politically embarrassing for the Obama
administration to promote 'diversity' and 'tolerance' and then lose religious
freedom lawsuits because we don't tolerate views that diverge from our abortion
ideology. So we will wave our magic Bureaucratic Wand and change the paperwork
that conscientious objectors must use to cooperate with the contraceptives
coercion plan they find morally abhorrent. This vaporous sleight of hand will
create the illusion that we care about religious freedom, when in fact we fully
plan to keep forcing the Little Sisters of the Poor--and anyone else who clings
to their religion--to submit to our scheme to give our political base all the
abortion-related stuff they want for free."
Here's a solution that doesn't require either coercion or
legerdemain: Rather than diverting health resources to end pregnancies and
punish people of faith, why not focus instead on preventing and treating actual
diseases, providing needy patients with hard-to-get but desperately needed
lifesaving drugs and treatments?
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