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http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2016/06/21/despicable-monstrous-obama-forces-california-churches-pay-abortions/by Caleb Howe
Today is a day for calling things what they are, and what the Obama administration is doing, has been doing, and did again today is monstrous and despicable and shameful. They are refusing to enforce federal religious protection laws for churches in California and thereby forcing them to materially cooperate with evil in contravention of their religious freedom and beliefs. It's an abomination.
From LifeNews:
Churches in California are officially subject to an onerous state regulation that requires them to pay for abortions, thanks to a ruling by the Obama administration.
The troubling situation began in 2014 when the California Department of Managed Health Care reclassified abortion as a “basic health service” under the Affordable Care Act and ordered all insurance plans in the state to begin covering surgical abortions immediately.Even churches are not exempt from funding abortions.
After this, churches in California brought a lawsuit. That was last year. The whole mess has been in court since then, and an investigation under the Obama administration into whether the rights of the churches are being violated was underway. But today ...
... the HHS Office of Civil Rights released the results of its investigation into the California abortion mandate, stating it found no violation and is closing its investigation of the complaints without further action.
No violation. Forcing churches to pay for abortion is no violation. They said that.
The bottom line is that the Obama administration is refusing to protect the right of religious Americans to exercise their conscience, and for religious institutions to do the same. As a refresher, in 2014 California’s Department of Managed Health Care "ordered all insurance plans in the state to immediately begin covering elective abortion. Not Plan B. Not contraceptives. Elective surgical dismemberment abortion."
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