Obamacare and the Forfeiting of Religious Liberty

This is predictable, but chilling nonetheless.  CNS News reports that a Colorado family that has owned a business since 1962 and employs over 250 people is being told by the government that a private businesses cannot opt out of Obamacare mandates for religious reasons.  Apparently the Justice Department asserts that since an HVAC business is not a religious enterprise, the owners of that business have no right to exercise religious freedom in what medical procedures are included in policies offered to employees.

At issue are a mandate to cover procedures that include sterilization and abortifacient contraceptives.  The owners, the Newland family, are Catholic and those particular procedures go against their faith based ethical beliefs. 

In essence, the solution the Justice Department suggests is this:

If you have a religious objection to Obamacare then don't own a business.  

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Another Reason to Oppose Government Controlled Medicine

A number of sources report this case of a Chinese woman forced into the abortion of her baby in the seventh month of her pregnancy.  While the Chinese government is apparently "investigating" the officials who had five men forcibly hold this 23 year old woman down to give her an injection that resulted in the birth of a dead baby two days later, it has been pointed out that the officials were simply enforcing the Chinese national policy of one child per family. 

For context, remember that Joe Biden has expressed sympathy for the Chinese one-child policy, and the president who has forced a number of health care mandates on us was once a champion of live-birth abortion.  When efforts in our country were made to reduce the horror of partial birth abortion, the party of Biden, Clinton and Obama could do nothing but spout talking points to ignore the substance of the issue.

Health care is too important to leave in the hands of power brokers with political agendas and collectivist tendencies.

Why I Am a Conservative - Health Care

My first thoughts about health care go back about 29 years when I went to a dentist in California for a toothache.   I had signed up for an HMO, which seemed like a great program.  Pay a small set fee and everything is covered!  Wonderful.  The dentist in question was part of that HMO plan and I could only go to a dentist "in plan".  After an X-ray revealed that I had swollen sinuses from a sinus infection that was causing the pain in the roots of my teeth I went to a regular doctor - in plan - and after an antibiotic I was good to go.  So I decided to take advantage of the plan and schedule a normal dental checkup.

I expected what I had always experienced - that I would sit down in a chair, a dentist would poke and prod at my teeth, they would take some X-rays and if necessary I would return to have a cavity filled - one visit or maybe two.  What happened opened my eyes to the realities of what is now a health care mess.  First I came in for the checkup.  Cha-ching!  (More)