Last night (March 1) on NBC Nightly News, this took place: Barbara Boxer, D-CA, said, “…they [religious organizations like Catholic hospitals] would no longer have to offer breast cancer screenings, cervical cancer screenings – all they have to do is say ‘Oh – I’m really sorry – we believe prayer is the answer…’”
Chuck Schumer, D-NY, said, “A Republican-led Senate might pass this bill; a Republican president, like Mitt Romney, would definitely sign it.”
Susan Brooks Thistlewhaite, former president of Chicago Theological Seminary, said, “Rights that women felt were settled -- I think, for nearly a generation -- have suddenly become contested again.”
Rush Limbaugh weighed in – the clip they showed of him was very unflattering (surprise, surpise) – and now women are chanting in the streets, holding signs and yelling “Our lives! Our bodies! Our rights!”
So the issue of religious freedom being threatened has now become the issue of women’s reproductive rights being threatened.
Democrats in Washington are surely slapping backs and high-fiving it for, whether because of liberal brilliance, simply dumb luck or a combination of both, this is an issue that could very well propel Obama right back into the White House in November and MAY even cause conservatives in the House and Senate their jobs in November.
The story had two parts:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#46596862 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#46596874
Let's see if they do it.
Obama managed to create a whole new freebie giveaway program for the female slut segment of his base, and at the same time managed to spin it as he only did so as an “accommodation” to the Catholic Church.
Gotta hand it to him, he’s studied his Alinsky as carefully as anyone could.
So what if they did? Who is boxer, or anyone else for that matter, to tell anyone what services they MUST provide? IF the hospital refuses to do tonsilectomies then the patient will just have to go elsewhere. Doctors (and medical facilities) are not slaves (yet).