Medical tyranny: Pro-life churches in California are being forced to fund abortion under Obamacare

Friday, July 01, 2016 by: L.J. Devon, Staff Writer
Tags: abortion, churches, Affordable Care Act

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(NaturalNews) No one has a choice. No one has a right to their own, individual conscience anymore. Your beliefs must fall in line with the government's demands. No one has a right to object to the organized murder of the most precious in our society.

As little ones are carried away as medical waste, slaughtered and vacuumed out of the wombs of desperate women, the federal government puts out a mandate, forcing everyone to pay for the atrocity. Your funds, whether you consciously agree or not, are taken and used for a barbaric medical practice that traps women and damages them psychologically for years to come.

Church members denied their conscience, forced to fund atrocities

Protecting the lives of the most innocent is forbidden, by law. Everyone, including churches, must pay for what the government has dictated is "healthcare."

Educating women and men that there is a better way is no longer allowed. The current abortion-on-demand way is the only way, as everyone is ordered to pay. All businesses, including all churches, must follow along with the medical tyranny of the state. No one has a choice but to pay for the mass slaying of innocents through government-run insurance plans.

According to the current barbaric logic of corrupt dictators like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, no fetus, at any gestation, has a right to their life. Everyone must follow this dictate, including churches who rightfully and morally object to this macabre practice. Church organizations see a better way for women, and are willing to fund ways that give them the option of life and a future, even when they are at their most desperate.

ACA declares abortion a 'basic health service' for which everyone must pay

In 2014, the Affordable Care Act reclassified abortion as a "basic health service." Under the new definition, the California Department of Managed Health Care mandated that all insurance plans cover surgical abortions immediately. Under the new law, churches too are told to pay for the procedure.

Several churches joined the Life Legal Defense Foundation in protest, including California's Foothill Church in Glendora, Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in Chino, and The Shepherd of the Hills Church in Porter Ranch. Their case is making its way through the courts. They are standing by the important Weldon Amendment, which protects everyone's conscience rights.

Churches that help women make better decisions are being chastised for 'discriminating against women'

However, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has ignored the individual conscience of every church member who doesn't want to be forced to fund the abortion industry. The OCR believe that the Weldon amendment doesn't apply to the churches. They believe it only protects the health insurance companies and not the purchasers of those plans.

The OCR, working in harmony with the federal government, is now forcing the churches to drop health insurance plans that do not fund life-terminating abortion surgeries. The Obama Administration believes that these health insurance plans discriminate against women. Interestingly enough, the administration doesn't see how their use of wide scale force actually discriminates against the moral consciences of millions of Americans who don't want to be forced to pay for something so arcane and violent.

Obama Administration shows blatant disregard for the rule of law

Speaking to Life News, Representative Chris Smith said, "Nearly two years after California imposed its draconian mandate that requires all insurance companies to pay for abortion the Obama Administration has reached a new low — reinterpreting the Weldon amendment to allow the mandate to continue." Rep Smith, who is the Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, reiterated, "This means that Californians, including churches, will continue to be forced to pay for elective abortions in their insurance plans.

"The Weldon amendment – named for the Florida Congressman Dave Weldon who authored it – has been renewed and signed into law annually, including by President Obama. The Weldon Amendment protects against state-imposed abortion mandates. But Obama's Administration has again shown blatant disregard for the rule of law. This decision illustrates the far reaches of Obama's radical pro-abortion ideology – forcing churches and communities of faith that have pro-life convictions to participate in and pay for a practice that dismembers and chemically poisons unborn children."

Sources include:

LifeNews.com