HHS Orders All Student Health Plans to Cover Sterilization and Contraception

from The Lonely Conservative by Lonely Conservative:

HHS Orders All Student Health Plans to Cover Sterilization and Contraception:
The folks in the Obama administration must have hoped the new Health and Human Services rule issued on Friday would fly under the radar. In addition to ordering insurance companies to give free contraception to students, it also provides for free sterilizations and abortion drugs. CNS News has the details.

All student health care plans covering female college students in the United States must include coverage for free voluntary sterilization surgery, the Department of Health and Human Services announced late Friday afternoon.
Women of college age who do not attend school will also get free sterilization coverage whether they are insured through an employer, their parents, or some form of government-subsidized plan.
All student health plans, HHS said Friday as it finalized a new regulation under the Affordable Care Act (otherwise known as Obamacare) must cover the full set of cost-free women’s “preventive services” that HHS ordered last month must be covered by all U.S. health care plans.
These free “preventive services” include surgical sterilization procedures and all Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptives, including those that cause abortions.

The rule also applies to religious universities, of course. So Sandra Fluke should be happy. The Catholic church isn’t taking the matter sitting down.

The U.S. Catholic Bishops have said that this mechanism does not satisfy their concerns about the regulation’s violation of the freedom of conscience and religion of those who have moral and religious objections to sterilization, artificial contraception and abortion. Institutions that object on moral and religious grounds would still have to provide insurance plans that covered these things, even if these particular services were theoretically paid for by the insurer rather than the institution securing the insurers services to cover its students and employees.

Read the whole thing, the rule applies to girls as young as 15.
As far as I can tell, the rule will also apply to self-insured universities and institutions.
Remember, these are the same people who want to reduce cancer screenings like pap smears and mammograms for women, and prostate screenings for men.
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Free stuff that others are forced to pay for is immoral.