Texas Renews Effort to Fight Contraception Rule
Birth control is now covered under all employers' health plans, but on Friday, Texas renewed its effort to revoke that rule.
Texas, six other states, two individuals and three Catholic organizations filed an appeal to challenge the decision of a federal judge in Nebraska, who dismissed their lawsuit earlier this summer.
"The Obama Administration is trampling on religious liberty and violating the U.S. Constitution by forcing private citizens and faith-based organizations to purchase health insurance coverage that conflicts with their religious beliefs,” Attorney General Greg Abbott said in a prepared statement. “The very first amendment to our Constitution was ...
Comments (6)
Anya Khan
BHO's attacks on Catholics and the Constitution is a reason to vote him out. Shame on anyone who supports this violation.
tthomas48
This is completely a religious freedom issue. Even when I was going to church I went to churches that supported birth control. The Catholic Church is trying to suppress the religious freedoms of others. You may remember that the history of the US is built on immigrants fleeing oppressive Catholic regimes. We are not a Catholic nation. They're allowed to keep their backwards views if they want, but they do not have the right in the US to impose their beliefs on others.
What next Catholics? Are you going to demand that women pastors in the United Methodist church be defrocked?
Dale Curry
There is no attack on religious freedom. Any claim otherwise is just more tparty driven rhetoric that has no basis in truth or facts.
So, Abbott, how much will this frivolous suit cost us this time? And how many times do you have to lose in court before you realize you are more of a political hack than an Attorney General.
Therese Quinto
I don't get this statement: "Rather than require employers to include contraception in their health plans, the rule now requires insurance companies to ensure that women who work for exempted religious organizations receive contraceptive coverage."
I thought that the Obama Administration edited the Health Care Reform to exempt religious organizations from having to purchase, or receive any contraceptive coverage whatsoever. However, the previous statement makes me think that even though they aren't bound by law to "include contraception in their health plans" they still are to have women who are supposed to be exempt, due to religious affiliation still "receive contraceptive coverage".
What if these women who work for religious organizations don't want contraceptive coverage. They don't want to pay for something they don't believe in, adhere to. Furthermore, what concerning women who aren't working in a religious organization, but still don't want to pay for contraceptive coverage?
This ramming of the Health Care Reform through Congress, despite ruffled feathers by the public still irks me, and many other people. Even though Seton Healthcare Family may be appeased, many other Americans still are not happy-campers. While I can understand that you cannot please everyone, it still doesn't make sense that the government can issue Healthcare as a right and power delegated to the U.S. Government. It's not. It's left to the people to decide who their healthcare provider should be.
Christine Lund
Most Catholic women use birth control like most other women in America. Get out of my healthcare. It's none of your business.
Lisa Whitehead
Therese,
YOU'RE AN IDIOT!
Sincerely,
Lisa