Articles
Revised contraceptive mandate is no compromise
Three weeks to the day after the Department of Health and Human Services mandated that all employers, with the exception of most churches, must provide contraceptives, abortion-inducing drugs and sterilization free of charge under their health insurance plans, the administration announced a so-called compromise in an attempt to extinguish a firestorm it created among the faith community and beyond. more »
By Doug Carlson - Feb 15, 2012
Topic: Life, Birth Control,
House panel considers bill to ban gender- and race-based abortions
As the faith community remains rightly incensed about the Obama administration’s recent mandate that employers must offer free sterilization and contraceptives—including abortifacients—under their health insurance plans, a lesser known but likewise important life-related matter took center stage this week in a congressional committee: gender- and race-based abortions. more »
By Doug Carlson - Feb 8, 2012
Topic:
On the Obama administration’s abortion rule
President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services has issued a requirement that all insurance plans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as Obamacare, cover free-of-charge certain so-called “contraceptives” that are actually much more than that. more »
By Richard Land and Barrett Duke - Feb 7, 2012
Topic: Life, Abortion, Birth Control, Citizenship, Church and State, Religious Liberty,
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