Obama's contraception "compromise" is worse than the original mandate

I just knew, when I saw how happy the baby-killers at Planned Parenthood were, I just knew Obama's contraception "compromise" was a gigantic F-U to us Catholics.

The media is saying Obama "backed down."

He did no such thing. He made the mandate worse.

Now Obama is forcing religious institutions to purchase group insurance policies that include contraception. It's a shell game. Now NO employer can provide a plan that does not cover contraception.

The coverage is supposedly "free," because there's no longer a line item in the premium to pay for it. Obama folded the contraceptive and abortifacient requirement into the basic coverage offered by all health insurance plans.

No wonder the abortionists are giddy. They're mainstream now! Right there in your insurance policy, next to broken arms, heart attacks, and flu shots. Abortion, it's Health Care! Contraceptives, they're just like aspirin!

Well, except that health insurance doesn't actually pay for aspirin.

And there ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

We cannot "compromise" our religious liberty.

There will be a lot of confusion. But don't be confused, and don't let people around you be confused. These last days have been instructive. As Rick Santorum just said: This is "about government control of your lives and it's got to stop." As Cardinal Wuerl put it this morning: This is about "basic freedom." As Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez said the other day in a column: This new mandate moves us closer to what Pope Benedict XVI warned against in his first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est ("God is Love"): "The state which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself . . [is]. a state which regulates and controls everything."

There is indeed a lot of confusion. Obamacare Tool / Useless Idiot Sister Carol Keehan jumped out ahead of the bishops (again) to proclaim she is "very pleased" that "a resolution has been reached."

Only one problem though — Archbishop (and Cardinal-designate) Dolan is not pleased at all.

We heard from Archbishop Dolan yesterday in a CBS Morning video (link contains full transcript), who said the HHS decision was, "at odds with the very sincere assurances" Obama gave to himself and to the Catholic Health Association.

Ah yes, "assurances."

Via Father Z, "I have been given personal assurances from the very highest sources…"

I think we know how much we can trust Obama's "assurances."

UPDATE 11 Feb 2012 09:41:
Linked by Doug Ross. Thanks!

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