THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 15, 2013
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Rep. Paul Wieland may be the first individual in the country to seek a personal exemption to Obamacare's birth control ... Read more
From the article:
The state lawmaker and his wife, who have three daughters, say that Obamacare’s birth control provision violates their religious liberty as Catholics. “I see abortion-inducing drugs as intrinsically evil, and I cannot in good conscience preach one thing to my kids and then just go with the flow on our insurance,” Wieland explained. “This is a moral conundrum for me. Do I just cancel the coverage and put my family at risk? I don’t believe in what the government is doing.”And this is what really grinds me, because Wieland's misinformation is coming from the Catholic Church. They seem to think if they keep saying it over and over that makes it true. Are we to conclude they are deliberately deceptive? Or incompetent?
In fact, Wieland doesn’t quite have his facts straight. Nothing in Obamacare requires insurers to cover abortion services — in fact, many state legislatures are exploiting the health reform law to explicitly ban insurance coverage for abortion. The Missouri lawmaker is likely referring to emergency contraception, which many conservatives incorrectly construe as an abortion-inducing drug. The so-called “morning after pill” is not medically defined as an abortion because it does not actually end a pregnancy; rather, it prevents fertilization from occurring in the first place. But that logic hasn’t stopped a rush of religious conservatives — at both for-profit companies and religiously-affiliated institutions — from continuing to fight against Obamacare.
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