Via lifenews.com
Leave it to the federal government to issue an 80-page document that could have been summed up in two words: nothing’s changed. Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had tipped off news outlets that it was set to offer an olive branch to religious groups on its abortion, contraception, and sterilization mandate. The compromise, HHS promised, would alleviate the concerns of organizations like Catholic Charities, hospitals, or colleges who are forced to provide life-destroying drugs against their will–or pay the price. Turns out, the “new” HHS guidelines are virtually identical to the old ones, with a very slight change in how the accounting is done for pills or procedures that faith-based groups object to. As most of us expected, HHS did not expand the exemptions for the mandate beyond churches, meaning that religious nonprofits like FRC and companies like Hobby Lobby would still have to choose between their principles and their prosperity. Essentially, the Obama administration is suggesting that religious groups still pay for the “health care” they oppose, but they do so through a third-party. Read More
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