Posted on 02/15/2012 9:21:20 AM PST by Kaslin
OK, the Twilight series of books has now gone too far.
Is it bloody?
I think the “compromise” is even worse than the original mandate (if such a thing is possible).
First, as the article points out, it forces insurers to give coverage for “free”, and this sets a horrible precedent.
But, in the real world, the insurers will simply raise the rates they charge religious institutions that object to covering contraceptives on moral grounds, anyway. Of course, the contraceptive coverage will be officially “free”, but the premiums to cover everything else will go up by whatever the contraceptive coverage would cost.
Roman Catholic and other religious organizations, and their employees who contribute to health insurance costs, will STILL be paying for contraceptive coverage.
The idea that insurance companies are simply going to absorb millions of dollars of costs, rather than passing them on by sneaking them into the premiums, is absurd.
Turnip blood!
The title at Townhall correctly says BREAD also:
"Can Obama Order Grocers to Give Away Bread"
This really is it, isn’t it? The question is who owns your body and the fruits of it’s labors? How very strange that the prochoice people started out with “My body is nobody’s body but mine”.
LOL!
Mundi wrote: “This really is it, isn’t it? The question is who owns your body and the fruits of it’s labors? How very strange that the prochoice people started out with ‘My body is nobody’s body but mine.’”
Sadly, I agree with your observation. Additionally, and setting aside the moral debate, one of the biggest legal problem with same sex marriage; where is the legal hurdle that prevents poly marriages and incestual marriages?
They know not what they ask for themselves — emotional, spiritual and economic bondage.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking on this. But...the truth is that any Catholic of moral conscience that accepts health insurance coverage that requires birth control is committing a grave sin.
I know this won’t happen, but every Catholic that is of faith needs to demand a change in coverage or drop the insurance.
Such a decision is a matter of faith, but if people of faith want to whine about this mandate...then they need to walk the walk and trust God to do the rest.
If Obama can force us to pay money for health insurance, ordering the able bodied to donate blood, which literally saves lives, is not out of scope.
Can Obama Order Grocers to Give Away Bread?
By Terrence Jeffrey
An no, no one can force anyone to give blood
So I'll be able to walk into the local Walgreen's and pick up a pack of Trojans for free? Or will it only cover contraceptives for women? Isn't sterilization an elective surgery? Why is there such a focus only on women's health issues? What's next? Free sex change operations?
Once they set up a system wherein other people pay for part of your upkeep, you are no longer a free man. You are obligated to secure their investment. You are basically livestock and your neighbor has a share in you that the government can safeguard in the interests of your neighbor.
Government health care thus diminishes your freedom, in the name of concern for your neighbor’s stake in you.
Here's the situation in terms that any liberal should be able to understand.Suppose you only have two restaurants in town, a Pizza Hut and a Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Now suppose that some people want hamburgers, perhaps even employees of the Pizza Hut, so they tell Pizza Hut that they must sell them hamburgers.
Pizza Hut says no, their purpose is to sell pizzas, and that the person must go elsewhere to find hamburgers.
The person says that there isn't another choice for them to conveniently get hamburgers, so Pizza Hut must be forced to sell them hamburgers against its wishes.
The grand compromise is for Pizza Hut to give the people coupons to take to Kentucky Fried Chicken, and then force Kentucky Fried Chicken to sell hamburgers.
-PJ
That might work if Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken were not both owned by the same company..PepsiCo.
Pepsi sold them to Yum! a few years ago....
(But of course that still leaves your point valid...LOL)
I forgot Yum! bought them thanks.
Yeah and I was being tounge in cheeck a little bit there too but Pizza Hut wouldn’t try to hurt KFC since they both have the same owner.
apparently they can according to Dems. The states can according to some “conservatives”.
I say NO WAY
I think New York City already has a team that shows up when 911 is called, just in case, to harvest organs.
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