If the Obamacare mandate on contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs is not changed, on Jan. 1, 2014 Americans will have to subsidize those services even if it violates their religious faith, said Richard Doerflinger, the associate director of pro-life activities at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
In addition, Doerflinger said all parents need to know that the Obamacare regulation also requires health insurance plans to cover “private counseling sessions with every woman and girl that is of child-bearing capacity”–typically starting at age 12 – “about this full range of sterilization, contraceptives, and abortifacient drugs,” and if parents oppose that, they need to tell the doctor that it “violates their parental rights.”
Doerflinger spoke with CNSNews.com at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, Oct. 12. The Health and Human Services rule for the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, says that nearly all health insurance plans in the United States must provide contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortion-inducing drugs, such as “ella,” without co-pays.
Even if a person objects on moral or religious grounds and doesn’t personally use such products, they will be subsidizing them for others when they pay their health insurance premiums. The only exceptions are for strictly religious entities, such as a pastor, a priest, or a religious order.
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Hopefully the USCCB and Mr. Doerflinger will object. If not, they should be disbanded, or the staff and clerical leadership fired outright. And, while at it, the Pope must also fire Bishop Gary Gordon, the cowardly head of the Diocese of Whitehorse, Canada. He has bent the knee to the State and agreed to delete any reference to the immorality of the homosexual sexual act (which Canada embraces, evidently). Once you let the State give you money, an institution loses all power. Still, the Bishop should have hit the media, done anything to bring pressure on the State for this awful outcome. The Church’s decision to be “pastoral” leads to this type of moral cowardice. Instead of counseling homosexuals, in a loving way, to avoid any homosexual sex, the bishops (a good number of which are homosexuals or are shelting the large numbers of homosexual clergy) can now gleefully say, “the State made me do it.” But, good bishops, this argument did not work too well at the Nuremberg Trials, and should not go over too well with our Lord.
If you click on the link you will see this:
Through various Catholic institutions, the bishops are suing the HHS to stop the mandate. Several Christian companies and other employers have also filed lawsuits against the HHS rule. – See more at: https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/james-beattie/bishops-pro-life-expert-reg-would-force-parents-pay-daughters-get#sthash.sBVEuNiF.dpuf
I agree! Some of our shepherds are wolves in sheep clothing. We really have only two choices: choose evil or choose good and take the consequences.
It is now WAY PAST TIME for the “bishops” to protest, they(MOST OF THEM) accepted the THIRTY PIECES long ago, and many of them will share a space in Hell with “Bishop” Judas Iscariot! May God have mercy on an amoral America! Viva Cristo Rey! God bless, yours in Their Hearts, Kenneth M. Fisher