ACLU to religious groups: Pay for illegal immigrants’ abortions, contraceptives
by Kelli
… [T]he ACLU wants to force religious organizations to pay for abortions for illegal immigrants who have been raped and become pregnant.
The civil rights group also wants religious groups which receive federal funding to give out free or subsidized contraception, suggesting that such assistance is necessary “to meet the basic needs” of underage teen illegal immigrants.
The faith-based organizations “impose their religious beliefs on these teens by denying them access to contraception, emergency contraception, and abortion,” the ACLU argued….
As the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops gently explained in February, forcing a Catholic group or an evangelical group to pay for abortions or contraception creates “moral concerns.”
The new rule would leave faith-based groups with no choice but “to restrict their work,” which “could create an unmanageable backlog for services” for unaccompanied minor children.
“We believe that, through practical discussions, we can find a resolution that allows the government to fulfill its obligation to care for unaccompanied children, while also respecting the religious and moral beliefs of faith-based organization that, to date, have provided such critical care for this vulnerable population,” the bishops’ group said.
Six out of the nine national refugee resettlement groups in the United States are faith-based agencies….
~ Eric Owens, discussing the latest fang-baring against the Catholic Church, this time regarding the Church’s refusal to add abortion and contraception to the aid they provide illegal immigrants, The Daily Caller, April 6
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
ACLU and the Obama Administration do not care about the immigrant children…. and they don’t even care about contraception and abortion.
They just want to edge the people of faith into the margins, so that all legal charity and services are provided by the government.
They seek a world where government provides all things we desire, and religion is irrelevant.
And while this may sound cynical, this is the policy that communist countries have used for decades. It makes people easier to control.
From listening to the testimony of ACLU representatives on various bills at committee hearings in our state capitol, I can tell you that they do not live up to their stated Religion & Belief policy statement. In fact, one ACLU lobbyist who was sitting behind me openly mocked keeping the government out of religion’s business when I tried having a conversation with him before the hearing. He scoffed at the idea that separation of church and state worked both ways.
http://historyhalf.com/the-real-history-of-the-aclu/
Why doesn’t the ACLU just have fundraisers and pay for it themselves if they feel that strongly about it?