Obama's Birth Control Mandate "Compromise" Rejected By Catholics Again

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Townhall:

 

Kevin Glass

6/16/12

 

While the Catholic Health Association - which represents the nation's Catholic hospitals - has long been an ally of President Obama, on Friday they officially came out in opposition to the President's controversial contraception mandate in a letter sent to his Department of Health and Human Services.

 

President Obama had thought that he had put the matter to rest with a "compromise" months ago, the Catholic Health Association has just now spoken up against it.

 

In a letter to the federal Health and Human Services department, the hospital group said the compromise initially seemed to be "a good first step" but that examination of the details proved disappointing. The plan would be "unduly cumbersome" to carry out and "unlikely to adequately meet the religious liberty concerns" of all its members, the group said.

 

In its letter, the group said the government should either broaden the exemption for religious employers, or pay directly for the birth control coverage.

 

While the group had long been believed to be less influenced by the Catholic bishops who steadfastly opposed the contraception mandate, this flips the Administration on its head.

 

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All this didn't have to happen, if the greatest President to come out of Occidental College had just maintained the religious exemptions, but no he just had to go that one extra step.

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We need a few more of these "extra steps" this summer.