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After trampling the religious rights afforded to the citizens of the United States under the 1st Amendment oBama has decided to backpedal. Though, oBama’s advisors insist that the change of heart was an accommodation and not a compromise, the reality is that his so called accommodation is really nothing more than an accounting trick.
Previously, the mandate required religious institutions to provide “the morning after” pill, birth control, and other forms of contraception in health insurance policies. Though churches were exempt, schools, hospitals, and other entities ran by religious organizations were not.
The oBama administration’s solution was to change the policy so that the cost of the mandate now falls at the feet of the insurance companies. They indicated that the after morning pill and other forms of contraception will now be provided free of charge by the insurance companies.
Truthfully, oBama and his advisors are either patronizing the intelligence of the electorate or they are dumb as door knobs, because the insurance companies are not just going to pony up those funds for free. The insurance companies are going to include that in their premiums one way or the other.
This is nothing more than an accounting trick; a blatant one at that. At the end of the day, oBama and his advisors have just given those opposed to his policy regarding the matter lip service. If the little boy in the short pants and his advisors want to be coy, they could at least attempt to be smart about it.
Joe Smo said:
It is imperative that Obama’s accounting trick be continually denounced as the deceptive slight of hand that it is. The deception may work on some who believe that “birth control” is really the cost saver that Obama claims it is. The reality, though is that it does, in fact, cost something. Besides that, Obama and Sabelius are claiming it saves money for whom? Certainly not the unborn whose lives are lost through the abortion pills. Besides that, what about employers who are opposed to providing their employees with products like the week after pill? Will they be forced to comply? Certainly.
Ultimately, this is a moral issue and not a religious one. The immorality of killing unborn life is based more on the natural law than on divine revelation – even if God is the author of both.