Birth-Control Mandate: Unconstitutional and Illegal

Today’s Wall Street Journal Opinion pages have a legal analysis by Rivkin and Whelan of how Obama’s Birth-Control Mandate would fare in federal court. Well worth the read.

Here is the crux:

In an effort to rally its base in the upcoming November election, the Obama administration seems more interested in punishing religiously based opposition to contraception and abortion than in marginally increasing access to contraception services…

In short, the birth-control mandate violates both statutory law and the Constitution. The fact that the administration promulgated it so flippantly, without seriously engaging on these issues, underscores how little it cares about either.

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