{"id":15270,"date":"2012-07-30T11:21:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T15:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15270"},"modified":"2012-07-30T12:39:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T16:39:03","slug":"prophylactic-against-mandated-contraceptives-and-abortifacients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15270\/prophylactic-against-mandated-contraceptives-and-abortifacients\/","title":{"rendered":"Prophylactic Against Mandated Contraceptives and Abortifacients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2012\/07\/30\/judge-order-on-obamacare-gives-faith-upper-hand\/\" target=\"_blank\"> up at FoxNews.com<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As President Obama\u2019s mandated insurance coverage of sterilization, contraception, and abortion-inducing drugs takes effect on August 1 for ordinary businesses, the Health and Human Services mandate\u2019s ultimate survival suddenly appears blessedly jeopardized.<\/p>\n<p>Federal district Judge John J. Kane of Colorado on Friday issued a temporary injunction blocking the mandate from being applied to Hercules Industries, a family-owned manufacturer of air-conditioning products&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Citing precedent, Kane wrote that the weakness of the mandate\u2019s legal position looks \u201cserious, substantial, difficult and doubtful\u201d based on statutory grounds alone, without even considering the significant constitutional challenges raised by Hercules. As Kane summed it up, the government\u2019s stance amounted to an assertion that \u201ca for-profit, secular employer\u2026 cannot engage in an exercise of religion.\u201d This is poppycock \u2013 and dangerous poppycock at that. It amounts to a claim that an individual employer, or a closely-held family corporation, does not enjoy the right to religious exercise unless those rights are channeled through a church in a formal worship setting&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The ramifications of this decision could be enormous. If even a secular entity enjoys a \u201clikelihood of success\u201d on the merits of the challenge to Obama\u2019s sweeping edict, then the dozens of suits filed by explicitly faith-related institutions probably enjoy a particularly strong likelihood of victory in court&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This could be very, very important for small businesses nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m up at FoxNews.com today. As President Obama\u2019s mandated insurance coverage of sterilization, contraception, and abortion-inducing drugs takes effect on August 1 for ordinary businesses, the Health and Human Services mandate\u2019s ultimate survival suddenly appears blessedly jeopardized. Federal district Judge John J. Kane of Colorado on Friday issued a temporary injunction blocking the mandate from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3647,3716,186,35],"class_list":["post-15270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-abortifacient","tag-hercules","tag-hhs","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15273,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15270\/revisions\/15273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}