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President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services has recently issued a rule requiring all private health care plans to pay for contraceptives, sterilizations, and for “emergency contraceptive” drugs (aka “morning after pills”) that can cause abortion both before and after implantation.  The public comment period on this interim final rule ends September 30, 2011.  Although there is a pretext of a religious exception, the USCCB notes that the “religious exemption [is] so extremely narrow as to protect almost no one”. 

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is calling upon all who are able to send e-mails to the Department of Health and Human Services objecting to what the USCCB rightly characterizes as an “unprecedented threat to individual and institutional religious freedom”.  [Emphasis in original.] 

The USCCB’s statement, and proposed bulletin insert can be found here:

http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1102233612901-16/HHS+Mandate+Memorandum+(2).pdf

More information about how to contact the HHS and other officials, (and more details about how Obamacare is being used to do precisely what pro-lifers predicted) can be found here:

http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/conscience-protection/index.cfm