Opinion

Religious freedom hurt by Obamacare

Posted July 27, 2012 4:45 am

I appreciated Thomas Figiel’s July 18 Fence Post letter. However, the issue of federally funded abortion resulting from “Obamacare” is broader than the Roman Catholic Church. Most evangelical Christians would likely not take issue with funding contraception, at least not morally.

But abortion is a significant matter for many Protestant Christians and especially evangelical Christian schools and Protestant para-church organizations. This new policy affects Georgetown and Notre Dame but also schools like Baylor and Wheaton College, for example.

In addition, according to the latest polls, the majority of Americans (about 60 percent) are pro-life and do not want their taxes going to support Planned Parenthood, which is little more than a front for the abortion industry. The new health care plan (a gross misnomer) affects not only Catholics but millions of other Christians of various denominations, many Jews and Muslims as well.

Not only Catholics, but a large percentage of Americans believe that their religious freedoms have been abrogated by the present health policy of the Obama administration.

Terry Schwartz

Winfield

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