President Obama said that “ALL women DESERVE FREE birth control” in his speech this
past week on the HHS mandate to force all insurance companies to cover birth
control free of charge. This is a slight departure from the earlier
HHS mandate that all institutions regardless of religious beliefs except for a
very, very restricted group must provide insurance that covered birth control. I’m sorry Mr. President, but all Americans
deserve better leadership! President
Obama is masterful at dividing our country, but he has yet to prove that he can
get anything done to solve our country’s problems. This is only the latest example of his poor
leadership.
The HHS mandate should also be a great concern to all
Americans who value freedom. The HHS
mandate to force all insurance companies to provide “free” birth control is a
direct attack on the religious freedom of American Catholics. However, it is also an attack on any American
citizen who does not believe that the government has the right to dictate to us
every aspect of our lives, especially our healthcare decisions. There are numerous problems with the most
recent HHS mandate.
First of all, the government has no right to declare such a
mandate. President Obama thinks that he
knows better than you and me how we should live our lives, and he thinks it is
the government’s role to tell you how you must live. It is not enough that the government mandates
things that go against our conscience, but now we must also pay for those
things that go against our conscience.
You think that this is bad? Just
wait until the government mandates that “free” abortion services must be
covered by insurance. You think I’m
crazy? This current HHS mandate already
includes some abortifacient drugs. In
fact it is already happening in the state of Washington. Just this week, the Washington state house
approved a bill that would require that any insurance policy sold to state
residents for maternity coverage also must require policyholders to pay for
coverage of abortions (Life
News).
Let us briefly analyze what President Obama says regarding
this HHS mandate.
“All women deserve
free birth control”
·
ALL women
- I am not a woman so I will not speak
on behalf of all women, but I would like to point out to President Obama that
he does not speak for ALL women. To
suggest that all women support this mandate for free birth control is
misleading and untrue. Not all women take nor want birth control.
·
Deserve
– I deserve a free hamburger at Wendy’s every day for lunch. I deserve free college tuition, a high paying
job, and a fancy sports car. It is this
kind of talk that has led to an entitlement mentality in our country. It is destroying our country. I believe in free people to make free decisions
and to work hard to earn what they receive.
This president believes that the government must provide for our every
need, want or desire. You are wrong Mr.
President.
·
Free –
Anyone who has ever taken economics 101 knows that there is no such thing as a
free lunch. I don’t know who President
Obama thinks he is tricking. If I order
a meal and the waiter says that the lunch is free is it really free? Maybe I don’t have to pay for the lunch, but
someone had to prepare the lunch, and whoever prepared the lunch had to buy the
ingredients to make the lunch, and the person or people who provided the
ingredients had to harvest the food, etc.
There is no free lunch. At the
end of the day, when all insurance companies are forced to include anything in
their coverage they will pass the cost on to the consumer. This will likely result in higher premiums
for all of us, so that in the end even those that have religious objections to
birth control, sterilizations, and abortifacient drugs will still end up paying
for it.
·
Birth
Control – How and when did artificial birth control become a right? I have never gone shopping for birth control,
but I hear that it is readily available virtually everywhere at a very
reasonable price. Does this president
ever mention say abstinence as a form of birth control? If he is concerned so much about the “cost”
of pregnancy, maybe he should be open to embracing the birth control method
that works 100% of the time; abstinence.
President Obama is a failure as president. He clearly lacks leadership qualities and
this HHS mandate is only the latest example.
He fills his cabinet with pro abortion, pro LBGT radicals and takes his
marching orders from them regardless of the will of the people. He consults the CEO of Planned
Parenthood when coming to an “accommodation” on this HHS issue, but he fails to consult
the hierarchy of the Catholic Church who were the ones that had the greatest
concern about the mandate in the first place.
President Obama has no desire to compromise or lead. He does not care about religious
liberty. He would rather promote “women’s
rights” than uphold the first constitutional right of religious liberty. A leader finds ways to bring people, even
people who strongly disagree with each other on certain issues, together for a
common goal. This President instead
tries to divide and conquer.
It is time for all Americans to stand up and say enough is
enough. We want our president to be a
leader. We have God given rights that no
government can take away from us. We
will not quietly sit by and watch as our rights are taken away from us. We have a conscience and no government can
force us to violate that conscience.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are under attack. Do not let President Obama take these basic
rights from you. Join me and countless
other great American citizens that will hold President Obama accountable for
his actions. He will not lead us; it is
time for us to lead.
God bless,
Mike
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