Maybe, just maybe, because he doesn’t like abortions either…he just has a different way of showing it.

I can accept that answer as legitimate, not to justify the mandate, but because it makes the logical connection between contraception and abortion. Not everyone, or even most people, who use contraceptives are willing to abort a child if the contraceptive method fails. But many do. A couple of studies from the U.S. and Spain, respectively:

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3429402.html

http://www.contraceptionjournal.org/article/S0010-7824(10)00327-6/abstract

(P.S., Rick, I know you won’t understand any of this since your reading consists of the Starbucks menu, the Sun Sentinel and The Daily Show. Don’t worry. We understand.)

(P.P.S., Robert, have you gotten your cease and desist from The Herald yet? I know we haven’t…)

As far as some states mandating the coverage, yes, but except for 3 or 4 of the states, they have broader exemptions than the HHS mandate. Really though, it’s a big step to go from a state-level mandate to a federal mandate.

I don’t think Obama is against the practice of faith, and nor do I think he is anti-Catholic. That would make the argument way too simplistic. However, it’s quite obvious that he and others in the administration believe that the state has the authority to trump someone’s deeply-held religious beliefs for what they perceive as the “common good”. Whether intentional or not, it’s placing a greater importance in the authority of the state than in the authority of God, something the Founding Fathers fought tooth and nail against. The problem here is that the Obama and HHS premise that contraception is “preventive care” and therefore as essential as routine physicals or cancer screenings is severely flawed and illogical. A family isn’t something that is to be “prevented” like some disease.

Do you honestly believe, Robert, that President Obama doesn’t want Americans to be free to practice their faith? Do you really believe that he has it out for Catholics? All because he wants all women to have access to comprehensive health care?

“Many liberals?” Give me a source or, better yet, a few names other than Lieberman and Manwich, or whatever his name is, who are as much Democrats as Rubio is an exile.

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