The Obama administration’s unprecedented assault on conscience through its “preventive services mandate” has torn the mask off the entire structure of the 2010 health care law: From top to bottom, it is a massive attack on individual and moral freedom.
This op-ed first appeared online at Roll Call on March 5, 2012.
Dannenfelser and Donovan: Mandate for ‘Free’ Abortion Drugs Is Not Freedom
By Marjorie Dannenfelser and Charles A. Donovan
The Obama administration’s unprecedented assault on conscience through its “preventive services mandate” has torn the mask off the entire structure of the 2010 health care law: From top to bottom, it is a massive attack on individual and moral freedom.
President Barack Obama’s “accommodation” does not change this fact. The assault on freedom lies in the very DNA of the Democrats’ takeover of one-sixth of the U.S. economy.
This truth has dawned on some of the law’s key supporters, men and women who abandoned their deepest principles to pass the president’s plan in early 2010.
Former Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper (D-Pa.), who lost her campaign for re-election over this issue, told reporters that, had she known the law would force religious institutions to buy coverage of abortion-causing drugs, she would not have voted for the bill. Former Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), who led the anti-abortion defectors who embraced the measure, admitted that under the Obama rule “you’re destroying an embryo, you’re taking a life.”
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