Now Pro-Life Groups Told to Pay for Abortions
Photo Credit: WNDGovernment advocacy for unlimited access to abortion has surged under Barack Obama’s administration, and at one point the National Right to Life Committee uncovered documents revealing the president was even more dedicated to abortion at any time for any reason than even the National Abortion Rights Action League.
Now, the District of Columbia is proposing a Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Amendment that would prohibit employers from “discriminating” for any reason over the issue of “reproductive health,” including abortion.
It “is intended to force employers to provide health insurance for elective abortions regardless of the employers’ beliefs or convictions,” according to the Alliance Defending Freedom.
ADF has joined with the March for Life, Susan B. Anthony List, Charlotte Lozier Institute, Concerned Women for America, National Right to Life Committee and Family Research Council to write a letter to D.C. officials strongly urging them to drop the plan.
Earlier this month, a formal protest developed in California on behalf of several churches whose leaders charge the state simply changed its health insurance practices to force them to pay for abortions. Casey Mattox, an attorney working on the California case, said forcing a church” to be party to elective abortion is one of the utmost-imaginable assaults on our most fundamental American freedoms.”
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