51 Senators have just gone on record to in effect vote against a foundational principle of our country’s philosophical genesis:
he Senate voted today against an amendment to restore the religious liberty protections for employers who don’t want to be forced to pay for birth control or drugs that may cause abortions in their employee health plans.
Leading pro-life organizations called on the Senate to vote for the amendment to the mandate the Obama administration issued, but Democrats banded together against republicans to defeat it on a 51 to 48 margin by adopting a motion to table, or kill, it.
Key pro-abortion senators including Clare McCaskill of Missouri and Jon Tester of Montana voted against the amendment — which will energize pro-life advocates against their re-election campaigns this November. On the other side, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Ben Nelson of Nebraska were three Democrats who crossed sides and voted with Republicans to support the amendment.
The text of the Blunt Amendment consists of the language taken from the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act (S. 1467, H.R. 1179). It would amend the Obama health care law (“ObamaCare”) to prevent the imposition of regulatory mandates that violate the religious or moral convictions of those who purchase or provide health insurance.
During the debate, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) spoke in support of an amendment introduced by U.S. Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri,
In his speech, Hatch said that “…our Constitution demands that those individuals and institutions that object to providing these services on religious and moral grounds be protected.” Hatch added that “under this administration, our Bill of Rights has been subordinated to President Obama’s desire to micromanage the nation’s health care system.”
This is part and parcel of a coup. And sad to say, too many on the right simply refuse to acknowledge the seriousness of the matter.
Oh well. May you live in interesting times.
Olympia Snowe voted with the Democrats.
Of course she did.
My take on her retiring? She’s doing the honorable version of a Jim Jeffords.
But can you prove you’re not just a ‘toxic liar’, JG? ‘Full of raging hate’, the kind that prematurely takes out toxic liars?
Hint: ‘Give me liverty or give me death’, was a toxic liar’s lie.
This is why I think even if the GOP held 75 seats in the Senate and Obama or any other Dem officeholder were to commit mass murder on live TV by his own hand, even though the House might impeach unanimously, the Senate would never convict.
Why even bother parsing this bullshit.
Are we to believe that without free birth control from the government, birth control itself disappears?
This is a fabricated issue, and it should sink the Dems. Even with the media helping.
In Keenan’s letter ‘a huge attack on women’s birth-control coverage’, already an enormous stretch, morphed into the bald-faced lie ‘anti-contraception members of Congress’ in the space of a paragraph.
Across the nation proggs vigorously nod and then turn back to their televisions.
What disease is prevented/cured by BC pills, RU-486, and abortion?
One basic divide between the right and left is whether people are a problem to be removed.
It’s the most basic divide isn’t it?
Rush has been hammering this all day by way of that Georgetown Law agitprop “victim” of our collective callous miserliness towards her libidnous needs.
So much going on with this government guaranteed right to (sorta) consequence-free sexual gratification for us to unpack.
I still maintain that if I’m forced to pay for other people’s birth control, I should at least get to decide which ones have to use it. BECAUSE OF THE FAIRNESS!
There’s plenty on the Margaret Sanger/Herbert Croly wing of the Left who agree with you Squid.
But they have a different definition of fairness.
Then we can compromise, Ernst. I’ve heard that they’re all about compromise lately.
I might consider paying for progressives’ sterilization, but I would want it done from a private fund. If they want consequence-free sex then they should commit to that.
What disease is prevented/cured by BC pills, RU-486, and abortion?
None, unless we posit a disease model of pregnancy.
Many women are prescribed birth control pills to regulate their menstrual cycles if their periods are irregular.
I still don’t understand why I have to pay for sex when I’m not even taking part.
It sounds like you need to demand your rights, Rob. I see the makings of a class action suit.
I bet Fluke would get ticked off if I so much as tried to watch.
Seems to have done wonders for alcoholics.
The disease model of alcholism is falling out of favor with physicians and causing great shrieking and tearing of hair by people who run Rehabilitation Center$.
Relapse is their bread and butter.