The Obama administration is at it again. They are now using Obamacare to impose a secular vision on Americans who believe that they should not have their religious freedom taken away. On Jan. 20, 2012, the Obama administration affirmed a rule that would force Roman Catholic hospitals, charities and universities to purchase health insurance for their employees that includes coverage for contraception, abortifacients and sterilization, in violation of their religious principles. This is wrong.

My own view is clear. I stand with the Catholic bishops and all religious organizations in their strenuous objection to this liberty- and conscience-stifling regulation. I am committed to overturning Obamacare root and branch. If I am elected president, on Day One of my administration I will issue an executive order directing my secretary of health and human services to issue a waiver from its requirements to all 50 states. And on Day One I will eliminate the Obama administration rule that compels religious institutions to violate the tenets of their own faith. Such rules don’t belong in the America that I believe in.