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I have been reading about the new “HHS Mandate” on healthcare coverage, which would require employers to cover abortion and abortion drugs. As a religious Christian I am totally against this because it is promoting the death of a child and requiring insurers, the government, and other employees of the company to be complicit in this murder by being forced to pay for it. I have been outspoken about my feelings on abortion, and how it should not be legal because it provides a loop hole for one person to take the life of another innocent person without just cause and without any recognition of the victim’s human and civil rights. Any attempt to excuse this through “a woman’s right to do whatever she wants with her body” (the baby is in her body, it is not her body), or “privacy between a woman and her doctor,” is absolutely ludicrous. I think that pretty well states my feelings if there was any doubt.

However as a political Conservative I have other questions about this issue which I do not even hear being asked. Of course to be clear the mainstream media is not asking any of the questions related to the moral issues of abortion mentioned above. They never do because they cannot handle the true answers. However what I am referring to here is more about the government and it’s role in health insurance.

Why should the government have any say in what is included in my health insurance? In an economic and political system that is supposed to be operating on competittion, why do we need their intervention? If an insurer wants to offer a type of policy I do not want, I should be able to just go with a different carier. I understand having some regulations to make sure they investigate and process claims in a timely and fair manner, but what is the point of the government dictating what has to be in my insurance?

I suppose the answer is going to come in the form of the Commerce Clause of the Constitution allowing for them to regulate these types of things, but I still think this is going too far.Does the government require every insurer to cover invitro-fertilization for every insurer? In the state of Massachusetts the answer is “yes” but in most other states and nation-wide the anwer is “no.” Invitro is very expensive and can also be contreversial, and yet it fascilitates the creation of life, where abortion only fascilitates the end of it.

I guess the point I am trying to get to here is that I really do not see why the Federal Government should be this involved in my health insurance. Since they do not understand the answer to the most basic question (which is life) I do not see how they can successfully regulate the industry responsible for paying for the medical care needed to sustain life.

What do you think the government’s involvement on this issue should be? Do you think that this mandate supports or harms the issue of life, and who’s rights are effected by it? I would really like to get some feedback and discussion on this.