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The supposed 'war on women' is total fiction concocted by a panic-stricken media and Democratic party who must use deceit and deception as they cannot defend the actions, words, positions, and associations of their man-child president.

That's dumb, Ken... even for you.

Thanks for nothing Chuck. The entire issue was fabricated out of whole cloth following the first out-of-the-blue question on contraception asked by George Stephanopoluous at a repub debate. The crowd booed and nobody (except George) knew why he even asked the question. He of course knew the Obama administration was about to shred the Constitution with their forcing issue with the Catholic hospitals. Next the the press conference by the Georgetown student made to look like psuedo-testimony, and all the time the media and pretend outrage by democrats all working overtime to use it as a distraction (so real issues with the pathetic administration wouldn't be discussed).

Ken, are you one of those people who believes that freedom of religion means that the catholic church is free to impose their beliefs on all of us regardless of our own religion? Do you believe that the businesses the catholic church owns are houses of worship? Do you believe, like the state of Virgina, that women are so witless that when they get pregnant, they haven't a clue as to what is growing in their wombs? You conservatives believe government is too intrusive then you pass laws mandating completely unnecessary trans-vaginal ultrasounds. Ken, KMA! Have a nice day.

Ken is a shining example of how brainwashed some are.
Obama is the Rights pinata to hit.

Susan/Robert,
For decades the Catholic church was free to exercise religious freedom and to fairly autonomously provide health care to many in their hospitals. Then one day the Obama administration decided unilaterally without the consent of Congress and without a constitutional amendment that the Catholics freedom of religion boundary was no longer valid and that they could could continue their practices only in an inward looking context. That is not in the right of HHS Secretary and the President alone to decide.

No one is forced to work at or go to a Catholic hospital. Ever heard of free association?

It doesn't matter what I believe. What matters is the reasoned justification for unilateral, coercive, and tyrannical federal government action. In this case (as in many others) no such justification exists. Ever heard of the rule of law?

I don't recall that it was the federal government that passed the ultrasound law that you mention. State and local governments are free to experiment in such areas. The federal government is not. Ever heard of Federalism?

You are of course free to insult me or anybody else but such doesn't aid your side of the argument.

No, Ken. Catholics would have preferred all kinds of restrictions on who and how they hired individuals that have already (by Federal Government fiat) been deemed unacceptable to the ends of maintaining a religiously neutral stance. This is yet another case where the Catholic Church has maintained archaic visions of the world and themselves and have imposed them on those under their control. Sorry, friend. This dog doesn't hunt.

State and local governments are not 'free' to 'experiment' with my body or with that of any woman or man. They are 'free' to enact those laws they find just and necessary to the good order of their populations, bounded by the Constitution, and that which is necessarily and properly controlled at the Federal level (namely freedoms of minorities that, if left in the hands of the majority, would be denied).

But the Christian minority (specifically Catholics) are being marginalized by the federal government that you claim is supposed to protect minorities. The federal government has decided it can unilaterally decide what religious views are appropriate and is in effect coercively seizing jurisdiction despite decades of respect for religious freedom.

Many areas of law are left to (or supposed to be left to) the states for implementation. In that way each can experiment with various solutions to problems. That the feds seize control of entire areas of society or dream up clever tricks like 'civil rights' laws (which allow them to unequally monitor just some states voting laws many many years after any identified issues or to re-prosecute some offenders when they feel the states didn't do a proper) or hate crimes legislation which clearly treats people unequally for political purposes are nothing more than examples of tyranny.