So where are the staunchiest peoples who claimed this could never happen, and promised their support in fighting it if it did?
California’s Department of Managed Health Care has ordered all insurance plans in the state to immediately begin covering elective abortion. Not Plan B. Not contraceptives. Elective surgical dismemberment abortion.
At the insistence of the American Civil Liberties Union, the DMHC concluded that a 40-year-old state law requiring health plans to cover “basic health services” had been misinterpreted all these decades. Every plan in the state was immediately ordered, effective August 22, to cover elective abortion. California had not even applied this test to its own state employee health plans (which covered only “medically necessary” abortions). But this novel reading was nevertheless quietly imposed on every plan in the state by fiat.
The news has slowly leaked out as insurers grappling with this change have begun quietly informing employers of this sudden change in the terms of their policy. This is how Kaiser Permanente broke the news to one California church that its insurance policy for its pastors and staff would now include elective abortion coverage:
I want to formally share with you that on August 22, 2014, the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) notified Kaiser Permanente and other affected health plans in writing regarding group contracts that exclude ‘voluntary termination of pregnancy.’
This letter made clear that the DMHC considered health care services related to the termination of pregnancies – whether or not a voluntary termination – a medically necessary basic health care service for which all health care services plans must provide coverage under the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act. You may recall that at the request of some employer groups with religious affiliations, Kaiser Permanente submitted a regulatory filing in May 2012 properly notifying the DMHC of a benefit plan option that excluded coverage of voluntary terminations of pregnancies. The DMHC did not object to this filing, permitting Kaiser Permanente to offer such a coverage contract to large group purchasers that requested it. The DMHC acknowledged that it previously permitted these contract exclusions, but now is requiring health care service plans to provide coverage of all terminations of pregnancies, effective immediately. To that end, the DMHC requires Kaiser Permanente and similar health care service plans to initiate steps to modify their plan contracts accordingly.
Effective August 22, Kaiser Permanente will comply with this regulatory mandate.
How soon will Leftists take the next step and force doctors and nurses to participate in abortions or face losing their license?
– I’m waiting, with great anticipation, for open season on Leftists of all stripes. Lock and load babiiiieeeee.
These people do not feel they have won until they have 100% submission.
It is like the drone I went back and forth with on FB regarding the Idaho gay marriage case. I was simply pointing out the Knapps legal arguments and this persons constant circular arguments dismissing everything as “discrimination” made it obvious they were not going to be content unless everyone agreed 100% that SSM was equal to traditional marriage.
“Compromise” means give me half of what I want now and I’ll be back for the rest later.
I don’t think you’ll have much longer to wait, BBH. People here in the land of flyover have been on a slow boil for the better part of two years and now O’dumbass is turning up the heat.
Incidentally, that old saw about boiling frogs is a lie.
Ann Coulter’s been saying for years that abortion was the sacrament of the church of leftism. And like the man said, “Heretics will be found out and forced to recant.”
Well, if all these things that can’t possibly happen keep happening, there must be a God because these are just miracles! Who could have foreseen any of this, except for us?
Just about everything said about the Tea Party is now being said about gamers/#gamergate. Hateful, stupid, white male, sexist, racist, proto-terrorist, violent, echo chamber, etc.
Virtually NO ONE in #gamergate has the background/perspeicacity to realize it.
Much like the Tea Party and the GOP, the gamergate tweeters and emailers are being thrown under the buss by game press and game devs who should at least nominally be on the side of the gamer to the point that early on the press tried to disavow the term gamer with more than ten articles on that subject from multiple sites on the same day.
Like the Tea party and the GOP the game press is nothing without the gamers.
It’s kind of amazing.
The same event only about video games rather than politcs.
Oh yes, gamergate is now listed as a hate group on hatewatch (SPLC).
A lot of the gamers under the MSM guns now “helped” put the tea party out of the front line of politics and don’t understand that it is now their turn. They JUST NOW found out that MSNBC and HuffPO will happily gleefully will lie about them and cares nothing for their former support.
AMAZING.
The stupid, it hurts..
This is worth reading, even if you’re like me, and couldn’t give less of a shit about #gamergate.
Funny Ernst one of the local SF Bay area radio talk hosts, Gene Burns suppose libertarian, used to say if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. I guess he does not read much from lefty feminists.
First they came for the Tea partiers, and I did not speak out—
Because I was . . .why was it that I didn’t speak out again?
Well I’m off to Early Vote. At a grocery store. Because Austin.
I think you can probably make the case that the other sacrament for the Left is “free love.”
Whether that’s yin to abortion’s yang or vice versa, I couldn’t say.
I dislike early voting as a matter of principle.
Also exit polls.
And I think you can make a case that our politics would be less corrupt if we didn’t count the votes cast on November’s first Tuesday after the first Monday until Wednesday.
I don’t know if it would be a persuasive case….
Ketchup!
You may have crossed the line, sir.
Or not. I’m really not sure.
– Wonder if you’d be able to hear yourself think over the din of Leftist screeching “minority voter disenfranchisement” if it were the other way around?
– As long as I’ve known him McGehee has been a ketchup bigot. It’s the fuzzy legs.
Nothing wrong with Ketchup. In fact, some of my best friends like Ketchup. Even I like Ketchup, once in a while.
The thing I was replying to, there at PJM, reminded me of a scene on “Cheers” where Lilith was buying lab mice, and the supplier asked her what she was buying so many mice for.
Carla, passing by, replied, “Snacks.”
Personally, I’m tired of the “we were forced to” crap.
Many people have faced death and the loss of everything yet have stood fast to their beliefs and convictions. Jesus Christ went through Hell on earth and died crucified on a cross; he didn’t betray his beliefs.
Yet today, in the ‘land of the free and home of the brave’, a bunch of leftist fanatics can wave paper that is illegal , immoral and unconstitutional, and based on nothing more than ‘they said so’ , people and institutions buckle’ whining that they were ‘forced to’.
Bullshit. I would submit that any people or group that roll over on their convictions and beliefs so quickly and easily had no convictions or beliefs to begin with.
I’m wondering how long until the Left starts forcing certain mothers to have abortions.
I’m sure Friedman can write a column or two on how well it worked out for the Chinese….
>Ketchup!<
i have the ketchup
hat.Don’t forget the inverse of that, wherin they ignore the illegal, immoral and unconstitutional and people and institutions buckle to whining about fairness, and declare “there’s nothing we can do.”
My cat tore the “you voted” sticker off my sleeve.
mc4ever59
Churches should just cancel their med insurance and find alternatives.
And publicize LOUDLY why they are doing it.
Ernst and Darleen; dead on. Enough is enough. Time to just say no, we’re not going along with your crap and paying for it anymore. When enough people/groups call them out and say no, we’re not going to comply , what will the leftists do then? Beat us up?
While it has been, indeed, time to ‘just say NO!’ [as a fine fellow once put it: ‘To stand athwart history, yelling “STOP!”‘], History teaches us that only a rather small minority ever will.
If the Churches of California would rebel, that would be surprising.
However, there is the example of the Black Robes, so, perhaps, there is some Hope to legitimately hold on to.
Bob, it is always a small minority who do the fighting and heavy lifting.
So, yes, reason for hope.