Category Archives: ObamaCare

More Lawsuits filed against Obama Mandate

Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

By Dave Andrusko http://twitter.com/daveha Contrary to the confident assurances of the Obama administration, opposition to its mandate requiring religiously-affiliated universities, hospitals, and charities to pay for health insurance that covers sterilization and contraception continues to mount. Here is just a

The Obama Mandate is “not a ‘compromise,’ and it needs to be rescinded”

Archbishop Charles Chaput

By Dave Andrusko http://twitter.com/daveha If you want an in-depth, thoughtful discussion about virtually any issue NRL News Today readers would be interested in, chances are you could not do better than Charles Chaput, Archbishop of Philadelphia. Last week I wrote

Justices Add More Time to Oral Arguments in Challenge to ObamaCare

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By Dave Andrusko http://twitter.com/daveha Already set to be the longest argument in the Supreme Court’s modern history, the justices today tacked on another 30 minutes for oral arguments over ObamaCare. The extra half-hour means the Court will listen a total

Opposition from Many Denominations, Academicians at Congressional Hearing on Obama Mandate

Testifying Thursday at a hearing, "“Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State: Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience?”

By Dave Andrusko In Part One, we talked about media bias and how the Obama Mandate is framed either as a “debate over contraception” or just opponents making political points in an election year. Here we talk about a third

Two Tips of the Hat for Astute Analyses of Bias on Display in Media Coverage of Obama Mandate

Mollie Ziegler Hemingway

By Dave Andrusko As we’ve discussed in story after story over the past week, the Obama administration has experienced some success at spinning its “revised” mandate compelling religiously-affiliated universities, hospitals, and charities to pay for health insurance that covers sterilization

Obama’s “Accounting Trick” Changes “None of the Moral Calculus”

Pro-abortion President Barack Obama

By Dave Andrusko This post will be our last of the week (with many more to come next week) on President Obama’s “revised” mandate requiring religiously-affiliated universities, hospitals, and charities to pay for health insurance that covers sterilization and contraception.

Obama Mandate Threatens Religious Freedom and Freedom of Conscience

Richard M. Doerflinger, Deputy Director of the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

By Dave Andrusko There was never—NEVER—any chance that pro-abortionists would skip the chance to turn today’s meeting of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee into a media extravagancy. What are the odds they would stand still for an inquiry

CNN Desperate to Explain Away the results of its own poll

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By Dave Andrusko A poll released this afternoon by CNN finds that exactly half of all Americans—50%–oppose President Obama’s mandate that compels religiously-affiliated universities, hospitals, and charities to pay for health insurance that covers sterilization and contraception. Forty-four percent say

Obama Mandate — a “direct, obnoxious, unprecedented government attack”

Congressman Jeff Fortenberry

By Dave Andrusko http://www.twitter.com/daveha Day Six of the bogus Obama Mandate retooling and aftermath saga and opponents continue to ratchet up the pressure on a number of fronts. Led by Congressman Jeff Fortenberry, who has introduced the “Respect for Rights

“The HHS mandate, including its latest variant, is belligerent, unnecessary, and deeply offensive to the content of Catholic belief”

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

By Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia Editor’s note. The following is excerpted from a brilliant op-ed Archbishop Chaput wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer which ran over the weekend. His subject is the Health and Human Service mandate compelling Catholic universities,