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From AP:
- "i Don’t Think The Employer Mandate Will Go Into Effect”
Former WH press secretary Robert Gibbs, speaking to a crowd in Colorado yesterday.Holee shit.In February, the Obama Administration announced the second delay to the mandate, which requires certain businesses to either offer their full-time employees insurance...
- Wtf? 19 Democrat Senators Urge Scotus To Force Christian Businesses To Pay For Contraceptives
From Gateway Pundit: The following Democrats signed the statement:United States Senators: Patty Murray, Max Baucus, Barbara Boxer, Sherrod Brown, Maria Cantwell, Benjamin J. Cardin, Richard J. Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, Tom Harkin, Tim Johnson, Patrick...
- Obamacare's Long March Through The Institutions: Target To Drop Health Insurance For Part-time Employees
Gradually Obamacare makes it's way through the institutions of America. First it affected self-insured Americans, many of whom had their insurance canceled because of new rules on what policies must provide. Then many companies cut workers hours...
- Catholic Church Files Lawsuit: Obama Administration Is Engaged In “a Conscious Political Strategy To Marginalize And Delegitimize Catholic Views, Holding Them Up For Ridicule On National Stage”…
From CNS: The Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., is arguing in a new lawsuit that the Obama administration is engaged in a “conscious political strategy to marginalize and delegitimize” Catholic “religious views on contraception by...
- Presidential Legerdemain
I was talking with Pastorius tonight and said essentially the same thing. Obama has said that the employers do not have to provide contraceptive services. But the insurers do. So now the employers just have to pay insurers who provide contraceptive services....
Green Energy
Hobby Lobby Will Defy Federal Mandate That They Provide RU-486 Instant Abortion Pills To Their Employees As Part of Their Health Plan
From AP:
WASHINGTON (AP) — An attorney for Hobby Lobby Stores said Thursday that the arts and crafts chain plans to defy a federal mandate requiring it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill, despite risking potential fines of up to $1.3 million per day.
Hobby Lobby and religious book-seller Mardel Inc., which are owned by the same conservative Christian family, are suing to block part of the federal health care law that requires employee health-care plans to provide insurance coverage for the morning-after pill and similar emergency contraception pills.
The companies claim the mandate violates the religious beliefs of their owners. They say the morning-after pill is tantamount to abortion because it can prevent a fertilized egg from becoming implanted in a woman's womb.
On Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied the companies' request for an injunction while their lawsuit is pending, saying the stores failed to satisfy the demanding legal standard for blocking the requirement on an emergency basis. She said the companies may still challenge the regulations in the lower courts.
Kyle Duncan, who is representing Hobby Lobby on behalf of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, said in a statement posted on the group's website Thursday that Hobby Lobby doesn't intend to offer its employees insurance that would cover the drug while its lawsuit is pending.
"The company will continue to provide health insurance to all qualified employees," Duncan said. "To remain true to their faith, it is not their intention, as a company, to pay for abortion-inducing drugs."
- "i Don’t Think The Employer Mandate Will Go Into Effect”
Former WH press secretary Robert Gibbs, speaking to a crowd in Colorado yesterday.Holee shit.In February, the Obama Administration announced the second delay to the mandate, which requires certain businesses to either offer their full-time employees insurance...
- Wtf? 19 Democrat Senators Urge Scotus To Force Christian Businesses To Pay For Contraceptives
From Gateway Pundit: The following Democrats signed the statement:United States Senators: Patty Murray, Max Baucus, Barbara Boxer, Sherrod Brown, Maria Cantwell, Benjamin J. Cardin, Richard J. Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, Tom Harkin, Tim Johnson, Patrick...
- Obamacare's Long March Through The Institutions: Target To Drop Health Insurance For Part-time Employees
Gradually Obamacare makes it's way through the institutions of America. First it affected self-insured Americans, many of whom had their insurance canceled because of new rules on what policies must provide. Then many companies cut workers hours...
- Catholic Church Files Lawsuit: Obama Administration Is Engaged In “a Conscious Political Strategy To Marginalize And Delegitimize Catholic Views, Holding Them Up For Ridicule On National Stage”…
From CNS: The Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., is arguing in a new lawsuit that the Obama administration is engaged in a “conscious political strategy to marginalize and delegitimize” Catholic “religious views on contraception by...
- Presidential Legerdemain
I was talking with Pastorius tonight and said essentially the same thing. Obama has said that the employers do not have to provide contraceptive services. But the insurers do. So now the employers just have to pay insurers who provide contraceptive services....