The Supreme Court Takes Up HHS Mandate

On top of all of Obamacare’s flaws, website glitches, insurance price mark-ups, and cancelled coverage, it violates one of our most fundamental rights: freedom of religion. So I was happy to hear that this spring the Supreme Court will consider whether Obamacare violates the First Amendment.

Obamacare requires all businesses to offer insurance that covers sterilization and contraception, including the morning-after and week-after pill. But this goes against a lot of Americans’ beliefs in the sanctity of life. It forces pro-life business owners to choose between paying crippling fines that could bankrupt their business, or dropping health care for all their employees. This federal mandate threatens Americans’ ability to worship as they choose, and it threatens American jobs. It makes it hard to run a charity, hospital, university, or other business with a moral or religious base.

I’ve already signed onto the Health Care Conscience Rights Act to allow business owners to only provide coverage in tune with their personal conviction. The First Amendment is in place so that no American ever has to choose between following their personal beliefs and following the law. And I think the First Amendment applies to all people – including business owners.