Biden’s Contraceptive Mandate Reversal Victory for Nuns
27th December 2024
“Christmas came early” for the Little Sisters of the Poor earlier this week when the Biden administration dropped its controversial contraceptive healthcare mandate, ostensibly ending the nuns’ 14-year battle over religious liberty with the federal government, the Catholic News Agency reported.
The Department of Health and Human Services on Monday announced its decision to leave in place Trump-era guidelines that allow employers to opt out of birth control coverage over religious or moral objections. The move let stand an existing rule that permits employers to cite “non-religious moral objections” to the Affordable Care Act’s requirement to cover contraception.
When Obama said, “If you like your coverage, you can keep your coverage.”, what made that a lie was the fact that, under Obamacare, it didn’t matter how much you liked your coverage — you were going to get the coverage that the government decided you ought to have, whether you could afford it or not.