Senator Marco Rubio introduced a bill yesterday that would repeal President Obama’s controversial contraception mandate.
The mandate, issued by the US Department of Health and Human services, requires businesses to offer employees insurance that covers the cost contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortifacients as “preventive care services.”
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“Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.” Rubio said in a statement.
Rubio’s bill would repeal the narrow exemptions from the law for religious organizations and extend a broad conscience exemption from the mandate for individuals.
“This is a commonsense bill that simply says the government can’t force religious organizations to abandon the fundamental tenets of their faith because the government says so,” Rubio said.
(The Washington Examiner today editorializes against the mandate)
