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Doctors To Obama: You’ve Failed Again
Say White House decision still denies First Amendment protections
WND
Members of the Christian Medical Association have harsh words for Barack Obama after his latest attempt to mandate abortion coverage in Obamacare: You have failed.
“This latest version of the contraceptives and sterilization mandate remains unacceptable,” said Dr. David Stevens, chief of the Christian Medical Association. “Since when does the government get to pick and choose which groups will get to enjoy First Amendment protections?
“Our founders intended the First Amendment to protect every American’s freedom to act according to one’s conscience,” he said. “They didn’t specify that only groups deemed religious will be afforded this protection; freedom of conscience applies equally to all Americans.”
Dr. Gene Rudd, CMA executive vice president, joined Stevens, “The administration fails to understand that many employers and individual Americans, regardless of a religious label or not, maintain strong conscience objections to participating in any, way, shape or form in a plan that promotes pills that the FDA says can cause the demise of a living human embryo – a developing baby in her earliest stage.”
“It would appear that the administration is trying to diffuse the pressure from federal courts around the country by throwing a sop to religious groups,” Stevens added. “If administration officials think that this action will somehow cause us to back down and accept the terms of surrender, well, that’s just not going to happen. We all plan to stand united in the fight to ensure that everyone’s First Amendment freedoms of religion and conscience are protected.”
