Posted on 02/10/2012 9:02:35 AM PST by Qbert
File under: “How to fake a walkback.”
With its unconstitutional, coercive, discriminatory Obamacare abortion mandate under fire, the White House announced…nothing today. A supposed “accommodation” to the policy will result in no compromise in the impact of the HHS edict forcing religiously affiliated health care providers and employers to provide insurance coverage for contraceptives, abortifacients, and related services that violate the religious principles and freedom of the mandate’s targets.
In fact, close observers say today’s announcement will make things worse.
The deets:
With the White House under fire for its new rule requiring employers including religious organizations to offer health insurance that fully covers birth control coverage, ABC News has learned that later today the White House — possibly President Obama himself — will likely announce an attempt to accommodate these religious groups. The move, based on state models, will almost certainly not satisfy bishops and other religious leaders since it will preserve the goal of women employees having their birth control fully covered by health insurance.Sources say it will be respectful of religious beliefs but will not back off from that goal, which many religious leaders oppose since birth control is in violation of their religious beliefs.
White House officials are likening it to the so-called Hawaii compromise.
Phony baloney, say Catholic bishops:
It’s difficult to know what people may mean by the “Hawaii compromise.” But a central feature of the Hawaii law is that every religious organization that is eligible for the exemption has to instruct all employees in how they can access all methods of contraception and sterilization locally “in an expeditious manner.” Just a few days ago the White House was saying that this is just about coverage, that no one has to be involved in getting people to the actual services they object to. It would be no improvement to say: “Sure, you don’t have to include the coverage, you just have to send all your lay employees and women religious to the local Planned Parenthood clinic.” The Administration’s press release of January 20 hinted at such a requirement.That would not be a compromise. In some ways it would be worse. As usual, this defiant administration keeps digging itself deeper. ***
The Hill calls Obama’s announcement a “retreat.”
The White House will announce a retreat from its controversial rule requiring religious organizations like charities and hospitals to include contraception in their healthcare plans.President Obama has come under heavy criticism from the Catholic Church and other religious organizations, Republicans and even some Democrats over the issue, and Vice President Biden has suggested a compromise could be worked out.
A White House official on Friday confirmed an announcement on changing the rule would be made Friday. The White House is referring to the change as an accommodation.
It’s not a retreat. It’s a re-trick.
It’s not an accommodation. It’s an abomination.
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Update 11am Weekly Standard reporter John McCormak is on a conference call with White House officials providing background on the policy head fake.
He tweets…
Sr. admin off.: “the insurance company, not the hospital, not the charity will be required to reach out” to women to provide contraceptionSo religious groups will still be mandated to offer plans that cover contraception, and the abortion drug ella.
Reporter asks if WH even consulted bishops before announcing ‘accommodation.’ Sr admin official won’t say.
To clarify, religious groups have to contract with INSURERS who do offer the pills, then the insurers offers free pills to women.
He will never give this up. Abortion is very very very dear to his heart.
I guess he spent nearly $100 million US tax dollars to change the Kenyan constitution to include abortion.
The insurance company will just past the costs back to the Religious Institution. So basically this changes absolutely nothing, the employer will still be providing free contraception to the employees. You would need to be completely void of critical thought to fall for this.
PP and the Abortion Nun like it. So I know it’s a screwing.
Money is fungible, don’t be misled...going to make the health plans cover it for free...right.
Accepting the “accommodation” is tantamount to recognizing Obamacare as legitimate law. That’s his real goal here.
The insurance companies will provide it- like the banks provided the low-income mortgages...
Hey Odumbo, stuff it —SIDEWAYS!
The problem with abortionists is they will not accept any logical discussion of the debate. All is dependent on their subjective reasons for accepting abortion. When subjectivity enters into following the Constitution, we have a dangerous precident. The POTUS (or TOTUS) has not failed to uphold the Constitution as he has sworn to do. His impeachment is now the responsible way to deal with his failure.
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On the progam on C-SPAN 2 last night from the Catholic Information Center, a number of interesting points were brought up. What the insurance mandate does is make everyone pay for birth control (including the morning after pill) even though the cost is not very high (for birth control pills or condoms) for people who want to buy that for themselves at a drugstore. There are some much more expensive methods (implants or injections) that are widely used in some other countries (sometimes coercively) but don't require the user to remember to take a pill on the right schedule, so they are more effective--this may be a way to force the taxpayer to pay the costs of those methods.
"The problem with abortionists is they will not accept any logical discussion of the debate. All is dependent on their subjective reasons for accepting abortion."
Yep.
Abortion is about the only thing that matters to many of them. It's beyond irrational- if they had to choose between a miracle drug that cured cancer or free abortions for all, they would choose the latter, hands down.
Clinton made tax increases retroactive.
Maybe we could make birth control retroactive.
Back to, say, Hawaii in 1961...
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