Laura Ingraham, conservative political commentator and FOX news contributor, calls President Obama’s latest compromise on the HHS birth control mandate a, “complete and total farce,” at CPAC 2012.
The White House announced this afternoon that instead of requiring employers to pay for free birth control and sterilization procedures for their employees, they would just require the insurance companies to offer these services to any employees of a religious institution for free.
“This exemption narrowly applies to all charitable religious groups and hospitals in the U.S.,” she said. “Non-religious employers have no rights of conscience or faith when it comes to this issue in the Obama administration.”
The services include controversial contraception methods such as the morning-after pill, which are considered by pro-life advocates to be abortions.
Ingrahm said that the most twisted part of this requirement is that the Obama administration thinks that pregnancy falls into the category of an illness that must be prevented.
In 2008, when asked about his reaction if one of his daughters became pregnant Obama said that he would not want her punished with a baby.
Ingraham referred to this comment saying, “That one sentence of Barack Obama is more revealing that anything he’s said so far. How many times have you looked at a child and thought that child was punishment?”
According to Ingraham, the key to defeating Obama in 2012 and getting rid of this mandate is for the establishment Republicans and the tea party Republicans to discuss and reconcile their differences so that they can unite and solidify the party.
