Democrats should be on the defensive over the ObamaCare contraception mandate but have instead made the entire issue a circus. They're employing their best smoke and mirrors to distract from the fundamental issue at stake -- whether Barack Obama has the constitutional authority to override religious liberty to achieve his desired insurance coverage -- but they won't get away with it.
As we noted last week, one Sandra Fluke testified before Congress on the need to have free birth control provided for all women at Georgetown University. Fluke is no typical college student, however. She's a 30-year-old self-professed "reproductive rights activist" who is pursuing her law degree, though she chose the Jesuit school for the express purpose of changing its policy on insuring contraception. Birth control is contrary to the religious doctrine of the Catholic Church, of which Jesuits are a part.
Simply put, Fluke wants them to abandon their principles in order to accommodate her and her fellow female students' recreational choices. The Left then cloaks this in the language of "rights" when no one on the Right is talking about taking rights away from anyone.
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4 comments:
They're employing their best smoke and mirrors to distract from the fundamental issue at stake- They took the words right out of my mouth!
What is to stop a church from saying we don't believe in social security so we will not deduct or pay match for our employees?
The post right after this...funny how things in other parts of the world are different. In Egypt the gov't pays to check the womans virginity....here we wanna pay for them to screw....the tax payers:)
There is nothing in church doctrine about paying into social security. Ms. Fluke has made a concious decision to go to a Catholic University and try to change thousands of years of beliefs. Why didn't she go to Cal. State Berkely or some other state institution that would have a free clinic where she could get birth control free or very cheaply?
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