Posted on 06/29/2013 5:37:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The White House ruled Friday that employees of religious-affiliated, nonprofit institutions would receive insurance coverage for birth control under Obamacare, ensuring more legal challenges to the rule.
"[Friday's] announcement reinforces our commitment to respect the concerns of houses of worship and other nonprofit religious organizations that object to contraceptive coverage, while helping to ensure that women get the care they need, regardless of where they work," said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Early last year, the Obama administration said that universities, hospitals, and other employers with a religious affiliation could avoid paying directly for contraceptives.
Under that Obamacare arrangement, insurance companies would instead provide coverage and pay for it.
The rule requires an institution's health insurer or third-party insurance administrator to notify employees about birth control benefits and provide beneficiaries with direct payments that cover the cost of contraceptive services.
The announcement by Sebelius puts into effect a requirement that has been beset by more than a year of talks between administration officials and religious employers.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other denominations oppose contraception on religious grounds and have protested against the requirement, along with conservatives.
"We have received and started to review the 110-page final rule," New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the conference’s president, said in a statement. "It will require more careful analysis. We will provide a fuller statement when that analysis is complete."
While the rule took effect on Jan. 1, the White House gave nonprofit employers five more months to adjust to the new regulations by having them apply to plans beginning on or after Jan. 1 of this year.
Other employers have been required to make contraceptive coverage available to their workers since last August.
Meanwhile, women's advocates applauded the decision as a milestone
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Based on unscientific, unreliable exit polls which utilize, at best, suspect methodology.
Obama: ‘If Catholics (and Protestants) Have Their Schools ... That Encourages Division’
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 5:29:13 PM · 46 of 51
mosesdapoet to Zakeet
WHAT DID YOU EXPECT ?
This address to the Irish during his stay in europe for the Summit 8 conference might make it to the national scene but our media will sit on it.
The democrat party after taking complete control even when losing the House in 2010 thanks to the opposition by loosely organized groups known as the tea party. The word and reference to GOD was removed at their 2012 national convention. A fact that went un-noticed, un-touched, un-mentioned, and un-used by the RINOS and GOPES (GOP elite snobs) who are running todays Republican party.
Even after reconsideration the decision was derided by the majority because it was re-installed over a majority voice vote supporting the removal.
If this were a political party in a parlimentary system it would be hyphenated and would (and should despite the difference) be refered to as the Demo-Com party. But the RINOS and GOPES can’t even call them “socialist”.
Any Catholic or Christian claiming to belong to this party is a hyprocrite and should be confronted and isolated with disgust and distain. It’s time to understand and face the facts that everything that has been edicted and ruled since that time including discarding the traditional concept of marriage has come out of the closet. They must be refuted.
It MUST be a very important issue to administration and I can think of only two reasons.
The two reasons you've listed, johniegrad, are valid and significant, but I have a hunch they're secondary rather than primary. I believe these are closer to the core of leftist extremist intentions:
1.) The commoners need to learn the state—and only the state—has the power to define moral values and decide social questions. Opposition needs to be be silenced.
2.) Killing, whether of unborn babies, freshly born babies, old people, or anyone else, is the state's legitimate means of population management, and again, opposition must be silenced.
(CNSNews.com) – Following on yesterday’s 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that Hobby Lobby can continue its lawsuit against the Obama administration’s contraception mandate on religious grounds, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma ruled today that the federal government must halt all enforcement of the mandate (and related financial penalties) against the Christian-based company. - See more at: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/court-gov-t-must-halt-enforcement-sterilization-contraception-abortifacient-mandate#sthash.2Mf2dQoF.dpuf
Why are our religious freedoms even a matter for discussion?
Doesn’t make sense to me either. Can anyone explain?
Should be no surprise here.
After the 2008 election, Valarie Jarrett, a member of Obama's transition team appeared on Tom Brokaw's Meet the Press and said, "It is important that President-elect Obama is prepared to really take power and be ready to rule day one."
What could be clearer? /s
The executive agency, HHS, promulgated a rule. That is what was meant. They followed all normal procedures.
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