WASHINGTON, D.C. (02-10-12) — Americans United for Life President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest said that the Obama Administration continues to force the abortion-inducing drugs mandate in its preventive health care guidelines, despite today’s “strained attempt to gloss over a fatally-flawed policy that does not address women’s health care needs.”
Dr. Yoest made the following statement: “It is clear that Americans need Congress to step in to protect their rights of conscience under the law and to end their forced participation in President Obama’s abortion-inducing drug mandate.
“The preventive healthcare guidelines include ella, a drug that ends unborn life. This is not necessary health care for women.
“Once again, the Obama Administration is taking a step in the wrong direction. This new pronouncement turns Roe v. Wade on its head. In Roe, the courts said that abortion was a privacy right. In this health care dictate, the Obama administration announces plans to invade the privacy of women by requiring insurance companies to inquire about their private choices and offer free drugs. And the administration announces that insurance companies will take on this burden at no cost to anyone.
“And it is incredibly naive to believe that this will not cost either women or their employers. Insurance companies will surely take the projected expenses of these efforts into account when pricing coverage.
“It is time for permanent protections for people’s rights of conscience, as well as the rejection of the preventive care plan at HHS that include the abortion-inducing drug mandate.”
