Right of Conscience an Unalienable Right

In a little over a year, many religious institutions will be forced to buy health insurance policies for their employees. Those policies are required, under a Department of Health and Human Services mandate, to include coverage for contraception and abortion-inducing drugs. Many institutions and individuals paying for these policies have sincere religious convictions against such things. The federal government, however, is planning to force them to purchase these insurance policies anyway. There is one significant problem with this decision by the government: A person’s right of conscience is an unalienable right, and our government can only stifle such rights in extremely specific circumstances.

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