Today President Obama made a brief statement which seemed to
give respect to the demands of our Catholic bishops and other religious leaders
concerning the conscience exemption to Obama-care. In nearly one breath he promised to respect
the religious institutions' requirement that they not directly
provide “women’s reproductive services” to their employees through their health
insurance carriers, while at the same time reassuring the country that all women
would have free access to these services through their insurance plans, regardless
of who they work for.
Give me a break! If
the insurance carriers are forced to offer WRS to any woman who wants them then
anyone who pays premiums is providing them.
This won’t get our bishops off the hook.
It won’t get the rest of us off the hook either. We will not be able to stay enrolled with our
employer plans as long as they provide these services to anyone.
A true conscience exemption would designate a particular
insurance company who does not cover WRS for any of their groups. I don’t expect such an exemption to happen.
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