“This isn’t about birth control,” video explains why Americans oppose the contraception mandate

Americans United for Life has summed up the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) contraception mandate, and how it affects the First Amendment Rights of Americans in a video presentation. The contraception mandate is behind the many religious freedom lawsuits against the ACA (like Hobby Lobby’s). While fauxminist and abortion-promoting groups cry foul every time a group makes a conscience-based claim against government-mandated coverage of contraception, the video concisely and easily overviews the fundamental problem with forcing Americans to pay for birth control and abortion.

The Con - presented by AUL

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The video goes on to quote Obama explaining his administration’s rationale behind mandating abortion-causing drugs in ACA legislation:

Beyond the religious freedom argument so concisely outlined by the above video, there is widespread frustration among women, religious or not, who are sick and tired of having their fertility being treated like a disease by contraceptive mandate semantics. If, as the Institute of Medicine (aka abortion advocates) insist, contraception must be covered as a “preventive service,” we have to ask ourselves what birth control and abortion-inducing drugs are designed to prevent The answer?

They’re designed to prevent a woman’s body from carrying out its fertility– even if she is already pregnant, the abortion-causing drugs mandated by the ACA can cut off her body’s healthy functions to end her pregnancy and cut off her baby’s life. So what these “preventive services” are preventing is the normal functions of fertility, and in the worst cases, they’re preventing an existing life from thriving. Real feminists, who take offense at having their fertility treated like a disease, have had enough. Add this frustration to the mandate’s disregard for religious freedom and conscience protection, and the nightmare that is the contraception mandate becomes clear.