WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The Biden administration announced a proposed rule Monday to eliminate a moral exemption to the federal Obamacare contraception mandate, in the name of birth control “access.”
CNN reports that the rule would eliminate employers’ ability to opt out of providing contraception coverage for moral convictions, leaving explicitly religious motives as the only approved exemption. It would also create a new “independent pathway” for employees at religious workplaces to obtain free contraception coverage through a willing alternate provider.
“We had to really think through how to do this in the right way to satisfy both sides, but we think we found that way,” an official with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) said of the rule, which is expected to affect more than 100 employers and 125,000 employees.
“Employers and universities should not be able to dictate personal health care decisions and impose their views on their employees or students,” cheered Planned Parenthood Federation of America CEO Alexis McGill Johnson. “The ACA mandates that health insurance plans cover all forms of birth control without out-of-pocket costs. Now, more than ever, we must protect this fundamental freedom.”
The change, which will reportedly take “many months” to finalize, would allow exemptions only for a narrow subset of organizations that formally identify with a religion that teaches against the use of contraception, while denying the same freedom of conscience to those with other sincere moral objections, such as the fact that many forms of birth control can function by destroying an already-conceived human life.
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LifeSiteNews has confirmed that The Temple House previously hosted a “simulated homoerotic orgy” in a former orthodox Jewish synagogue — and its owner is about to purchase St. Adalbert Catholic Church from the Archdiocese of Chicago.
SIGN: We cannot allow a Catholic parish to be sold to to the owner of the sacrilegious Temple House!
The Temple House has also been used to film essentially pornographic music videos, according to LifeSiteNews.
**STOP the Archdiocese of Chicago from selling a Catholic church to the owner of The Temple House, a den of sleaze and iniquity!**
This is nothing short of satanic and the Archdiocese of Chicago should know better than to sell this Polish-American church treasure to a company engaged in such degeneracy.
We cannot allow St. Adalbert Catholic Church to be turned into a venue for the kind of sin and sexual depravity pushed and promoted at The Temple House — so you must ACT NOW!
Talks between the Archdiocese of Chicago and Davidson are at an advanced stage and an engineering inspection is already underway.
SAVE this Catholic church from Dan Davidson, owner of The Temple House! Demand that the Archdiocese of Chicago STOP the sale!
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Kristi Hamrick, chief media and policy strategist for Students for Life of America, told Catholic News Agency the Biden rule was part of “a vicious cycle with life-and-death implications” and that the administration is “ignoring Constitutional rights of conscience that should be protected.”
“Students for Life of America does not take a position against birth control per se,” Hamrick said. “We oppose forcing people to buy or fund drugs and devices against their beliefs, such as nuns, and we oppose forcing people to pretend that abortifacients mislabeled as contraception should also be paid for.”
The new contraception rule is part of a broader effort by the White House to promote easier access to abortion and contraception in order to compensate for the loss of Roe v. Wade, which previously forced all fifty states to allow most abortions.