College President’s Letter to NH Legislators on HHS Mandate

The following is an open letter that Dr. William Fahey sent to New Hampshire’s senators and Congressman Guinta voicing his outrage over President Obama and the HHS  mandate requiring submission of all employers to provide contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortions under so-called health insurance for employees.

Three quarters of the US bishops have issued pastorals condemning this violation of the freedom of all employers, especially Catholic ones (hospitals, schools, etc., etc.), to obey the natural law and right conscience in resisting the anti-life culture. This is a total fabrication of a power that does not reside in the office of president, as is the creation itself of a federal agency of health and human services. It is one thing to legislate preventive norms in a time of potential famine or a real threat of plague, it is another thing to legislate that an employer must provide any health insurance to his employees never mind pay for their sexual vices and killing their own pre-born and partially born babies. Obama would no doubt also want employer and tax payer coverage for killing babies already born who survived botched abortions, as he did  as a senator support starving such survivors whose mothers had intended to have them killed in the womb.

Dear Senators Ayotte and Shaheen, and Congressman Guinta,

I am writing to you on behalf of the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts to raise my grave concern over the recent decisions made by the Obama Administration regarding mandated health care requirements.

The actions manifest in the Health and Human Service’s Interim Final Rules on Preventative Services (File Code CMS-9992-IFC2) and the January 20 statement by Secretary Sebelius are an insult to and direct attack against long-standing practices of the Roman Catholic Church in the manner in which it has governed its own affairs and been a good steward to a significant body of social services in our country. Read letter in full here.