Gov. Gavin Newsom, in the name of battling the “patriarchy,” pledges to force nuns in his state to pay for abortions, and he’s furious that federal law constrains him in his holy war.
Nothing like the “pro-life” party eliminating healthcare during a GLOBAL PANDEMIC.
California will survive without this $$ for now — but their frail, pathetic patriarchal system they are so desperate to protect won’t. https://t.co/FNDbqpOhEy
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) December 17, 2020
It is illegal in California to buy a health insurance plan without also buying abortion insurance.
That means every insured person and every group buying group insurance is being forced to finance abortion.
What Newsom hates and wants to destroy isn’t abortion restrictions, there are almost none of those in California, but letting nuns insure themselves and their staff without making themselves complicit in abortion.
The Missionary Guadalupanas of the Holy Spirit is an order of nuns in service of the poor that started in Mexico City. U.S. Bishops asked the nuns to come to Los Angeles to help poor immigrants there.
But being pro-life Catholic nuns in Los Angeles is not allowed. If you want to operate in California, you need to buy into Newsom’s morality, which prescribes that abortion financing is good … and therefore mandatory.
The sisters aren’t trying to outlaw abortion. They’re not trying to stop anyone else from buying abortion insurance. They are simply trying to love their neighbors while running their own religious order according to the divine moral law. That is, the sisters don’t want blood on their own hands, even if they know their state government supports abortion.
The sisters have sued repeatedly but gotten nowhere in California. However, there is a federal law that explicitly says that California disqualifies itself from some federal healthcare funding.
“None of the funds made available in this Act may be made available,” reads the Weldon Amendment, “to a State or local government, if such … government subjects any institutional or individual health care entity to discrimination on the basis that the health care entity does not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions.”
California discriminates against insurance plans that don’t pay for abortions. So California doesn’t get these federal funds. It’s simple.
The “patriarchal” system Newsom is attacking, then? It’s called liberal democracy and pluralism. It’s called freedom of conscience. It’s a system in which, no matter what the majority believes, the minority is nonetheless allowed to live their own lives according to their own beliefs.
Newsom’s promise that this “patriarchy” will soon be wiped out is chilling. It’s his warning that the Biden administration will eradicate conscience rights. And when Newsom, Xavier Becerra, and Joe Biden force Mexican nuns to adopt Newsom’s sexual ethics, they can all celebrate the collapse of the patriarchy under the weight of their own peculiar form of cultural imperialism.
