Jim DeMint: Obamacare versus individual freedom

Published February 22, 2012 5:00am ET



President Obama’s new mandate requiring all employers to purchase insurance coverage for their employees that includes abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization and contraception is an outrage, of course.

But what kind of outrage is it? Most of the public outcry has understandably centered around the mandate’s assault on religious liberty. The mandate forces every businessman or nonprofit executive with religious objections to these products to buy them anyway, or pay a fine.

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