Urgent: Religious Liberty Threatened!
September 27th, 2011 by Peter
The U.S. Department of Heath and Human Services has issued an interim rule mandating insurance coverage of contraception, sterilization and potentially abortifacient drugs–even for religious institutions. In fact, the rule includes a faux-exemption for religious institutions written so narrowly that the “exemption” itself is a threat to religious liberty.
Details on the rule, and what you can do about it, are here. Time is of the essence. HHS is allowing public comment only until this Friday, September 30th.
Helen Alvaré, Gerard V. Bradley and O. Carter Snead have published a must-read column on the HHS rule at the Witherspoon Institute’s Public Discourse site. “This is revolutionary,” they write. “Never before in American history has any administration—state or federal—been so willing to force religious institutions out of business.” Read the whole thing here.
