Undeterred by Thursday’s Senate rejection of a bid to block Obamacare from requiring religious institutions to provide insurance with birth control and abortion services, the pro-life movement is taking the issue to voters in hopes it will become an election issue in the fall.
“Rights of conscience is going to be huge. This is not going away. The Obama administratoin has created a self-inflicted wound on this,” said a spokeswoman for Americans United for Life, one of Washington’s leading anti-abortion lobbying groups.
The Senate’s 51-48 vote killed an amendment from Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., that would have let employers and insurers opt out of parts of Obamacare that found morally objectionable, including requring them to cover the costs of birth control. The issue flashed when Catholic institutions said providing insurance that included birth control and abortion services violated their pro-life teachings.
In the first move since the vote, Americans United For Life opened a campaign to make the issue a national call. They produced a two-minute video that called the president’s requirement a “con” job.
“The government wants to control our conscience, our beliefs, our First Amendment freedoms,” said the video. “This isn’t about birth control. It’s about government control,” it adds.
