Churches Now Forced To Pay For Abortions
Life Legal Defense Foundation and Alliance Defending Freedom filed a formal
complaint Thursday with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services over
the California Department of Managed Health Care’s decision to force all
employers, including churches, to pay for elective abortions in their health
insurance plans.
(Life
News) LLDF and ADF represent seven California churches that object to offering
their employees insurance plans covering elective abortions and allege that
DMHC’s coercion of abortion coverage violates federal law.
Last month, LLDF and ADF filed a separate complaint with HHS on behalf of employees at Loyola Marymount University that also do not want a health plan that covers abortions. In August, LLDF and ADF lodged a letter with DMHC itself warning it of its violation of federal law. DMHC responded by affirming its decision to force all plans to cover all abortions, without explaining how that decision squares with a federal law insisting otherwise.
"Forcing a church to be party to elective abortion is one of the utmost-imaginable assaults on our most fundamental American freedoms," said ADF Senior Counsel Casey Mattox. "California is flagrantly violating the federal law that protects employers from being forced into having abortion in their health insurance plans. No state can blatantly ignore federal law and think that it should continue to receive taxpayer money."
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(Life
News) LLDF and ADF represent seven California churches that object to offering
their employees insurance plans covering elective abortions and allege that
DMHC’s coercion of abortion coverage violates federal law.Last month, LLDF and ADF filed a separate complaint with HHS on behalf of employees at Loyola Marymount University that also do not want a health plan that covers abortions. In August, LLDF and ADF lodged a letter with DMHC itself warning it of its violation of federal law. DMHC responded by affirming its decision to force all plans to cover all abortions, without explaining how that decision squares with a federal law insisting otherwise.
"Forcing a church to be party to elective abortion is one of the utmost-imaginable assaults on our most fundamental American freedoms," said ADF Senior Counsel Casey Mattox. "California is flagrantly violating the federal law that protects employers from being forced into having abortion in their health insurance plans. No state can blatantly ignore federal law and think that it should continue to receive taxpayer money."
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