Did Obama Camp Flat-Out Lie About the Contraception Mandate by Posting This ‘Permission Slip?’
- Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:01am by
Becket Adams
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Everyone is familiar with the details of the Department of Health and Human Services contraceptive mandate, right?
The Obama administration mandated that all employers – including religious institutions – cover the cost of contraception and abortion-inducing drugs in their employees’ health-care plan. This sparked off a war with the Catholic Church, which said it would not and could not comply with the mandate. And, via the “Blunt Amendment,” members of Congress tried to pass a bill that would allow employers to opt out of the mandate.
That bill was killed Thursday in the Senate.
Obviously, this is a contentious and touchy political issue, right? It would seem like the sort of thing an incumbent president running for re-election would avoid, right?
Apparently, not.
It doesn’t look like the Obama administration has any intention of walking away from the firestorm it has created with the HHS mandate. In fact, it would seem that the president plans on using this issue as a campaign tool.
Earlier today, the Obama campaign thought it would be a good idea/funny to post the following “permission slip” on its Tumblr account:
The “permission slip” reads:
I have discussed the employee’s contraceptive options with her, and I verify that her use of these methods (IS / IS NOT) in agreement with my personal beliefs. The employee (DOES / DOES NOT) have my permission to access birth control pills, intrauterine devices, or any other type of contraception.
And included with the image was the following caption: “If Mitt Romney and a few Republican senators get their way, employers could be making women’s health care decisions for them.”
Now, as Michael Brendan Dougherty of Business Insider points out, the whole thing is dripping, sopping wet with factual inaccuracies (i.e. lies).
Dougherty catalogs all of the errors:
Lie #1 The idea employers have creepy discussions with individual employees about their sex lives when discussing their health insurance compensation. This does not happen. New hires usually get a packet with their insurance information just like everywhere else.
Lie #2 That employers currently (or under any law) would be granting or revoking permission to even use birth control. This is just not true. Currently many schools and hospitals just refuse to pay for it because they believe it directly implicates them in a sinful act. But employees are absolutely free to follow their own conscience and do what they want with their wages.
Lie #3 That there will be more ongoing creepy discussions and that a person’s health insurance will be constantly changed and reviewed according to changeable moral standards. This is not the experience of anyone working at a religious hospital or school, nor would it be.
Lie #4 That these decisions even get this personal. These institutions typically write up an agreement with a health insurer–or they self-insure. It’s an impersonal contract, not an inquisition.
Lie #5 Implicitly this makes it seem like it is also about women and their most common birth-control choices. It doesn’t mention sterilization or “morning-after” drugs that are part of the mandate. And it doesn’t mention most health-policies that don‘t cover birth control also don’t cover elective-vasectomies for men.
When you think about it, it’s really quite impressive that they were able to fit that many “untruths” into three sentences.
“The big lie behind all this is that somehow allowing some employers not to pay for this kind of coverage amounts to a ‘contraception ban,” Dougherty writes.
Echoing these sentiments, Tim Carney of the Washington Examiner writes: “It’s hard to recall a political cause as dependent on dishonesty as the support for Kathleen Sebelius’s ObamaCare contraception mandate. Mandate proponents attack opponents for wanting to ban contraception, or at least for ‘politicizing’ contraception.”
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Comments (142)
JP4JOY
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:46amPropaganda = disinformation. The propagandists under Stalin, Mao and Hitler would have been astounded by the lengths this administration will go to twisting the truth into their convenient talking points. The amazing part is that they have told us they will rewrite our history and introduce new truths to our faces and we just let them tell us whatever they want and we don’t take them to task to validate their positions. 1984 wasn‘t a fiction novel it was a prediction and it’s coming true.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 10:07am.
The picture of POTUS & Sebelius sucking face, is just about more than I can stand…….
I wonder how long you’d have to brush to get that taste out your mouth?……
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 10:25amoh, sure. obango lies? right?
only if his lips are moving.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:09am.
I was just informed that one would have to lick a dogs butt, to get that taste out of your mouth…..
There’s that Beastiality thing again………….
Report Post »The American
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 12:02pm@Spank, you are killin me!
Report Post »db321
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 12:05pmMatthew 7:16 – Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Satan lies and those that use lies to manipulate and deceive voters, people, groups for self gain are of their Father the Devil! Be deceived if you choose – You will be Judged for your support and action – make a wise choice – eternity for you in on the line. Unless, you believe that Obama can keep you alive forever.
Report Post »ScreaminEagle
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 12:10pmI just threw up a little in my mouth. Ewlgh. There it goes again.
Report Post »I_am_a_53percenter
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 12:33pmWhich one has the nasty taste?
Report Post »I_am_a_53percenter
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 12:34pmOh wait, it has to be Sebellius with the nasty taste as Obummer uses his mouth to kiss Moooochelle!
Report Post »snooop1e
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 12:39pmThis is really disappointing. I hope that someday in the future we will have adults in the White House but sadly I think those days are behind us. We are living in a new era where the only sacred things are Political Correctness, the Environment and Gay rights. This might have given the Obama admin a chuckle but God has a way of humbling us in time. I pray for our country and our leaders, sooner or later God’s patience is going to run out. Lord have mercy…..
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 1:31pmBarry is a divider not a uniter contraception was not even a issue until he made it a issue and most people were fine with the way it was local health departments helped out if you could not afford contraception no one out protesting for contraception rights until the divider brought it up.
Report Post »As with all issues he has torn the unity we had to shreds.
Hold-Our-Politicians-Accountable
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 2:10pmAll of our politicians need to be held accountable including candidates. Our Politicians did not verify the eligibility of Obama to run for or hold office. We can start by holding Congress responsible for not standing up for american citizens that they are suppose to serve.
Report Post »What we need is http://www.petition2congress.com/6195/congressional-reform-act-to-fix-congress/
BarackStalin
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 2:30pmWhat? Obama utilizing trickery, deceit and misinformation?
That’s ridiculous.
Who are you going to believe Obama or your lying eyes?
Report Post »Marci
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 2:50pmAnd there are nothing but morons across this nation, including Fluke, who keep jumping on the bandwagon that someone is trying to stop them from killing their unborn children or get contraceptives. Bottom line, the taxpayer, nor a church, should be under any mandate to PROVIDE it for them free of charge on our dime.
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 3:46pmFluke’um ALL
Report Post »Zipit
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:37pmYou can now refer to Georgetown Law as “FLUKE U”
Report Post »JRook
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:45amPretty sure the permission slip was in response to the Blunt Amendment which was broad enough to allow ANY employer to deny coverage based on religious or moral objection, not just religious based organizations. So the report is a classic bait and switch. In the context of the Blunt Amendment as written the permission slip is an accurate representation of what could happen. NEXT
Report Post »HowTruthHurts
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 10:27amReligious beliefs ARE protected by the Constitution, contraceptives ARE NOT.
NEXT
Report Post »HowTruthHurts
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 10:28amReligious beliefs ARE protected by the Constitution and contraceptives ARE NOT.
NEXT
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:54am@Howtruthhurts, So, you’re perfectly happy to have your employer make choices for you based on his or her religion? What if their moral choice based on theirr religion isn’t immoral or unethical under your religion? What if the employer is a Muslim? If you want to make this about religious choice, why do the prinicples of a religious institution outweigh the religious prinicples of the individual employee?
Report Post »Abraham Young
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 12:05pmhttp://erwin.bernhardt.net.nz/hungary/hungaryrevolutionchapter1.html
History of the hungarian revolution where education was “free”.
Government advertisements are the worst kind of deception.
While claiming to ‘free’ us from our oppressors, a new sort of oppression is created. A wise man learns from the experience of others.
Report Post »MemphisViking
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 1:29pmDesertrose, I missed the part of the Constitution that says our rights are protected until someone finds them inconvenient. By the way, as a Christian, I‘m totally used to being told my beliefs don’t matter because other people don’t agree with them.
Report Post »jdare
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 1:50pmYes, you’re right, you this might tell you what’s coming next. One day next November 2, your going to wake up and find out that you have to pay your own way in this world and all the freebies stolen from hard working citizens are going to be given back to the people who produce. Now go back and finish your kool-aid while your waiting for election day. TEA! Fair Tax!
Report Post »ottknot
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 2:42pmStraw Man much desert? The employer (Muslim or otherwise) is not telling anyone what they can or can’t do. The employer is telling the employee what they are or aren’t paying for. Next, and please try harder.
Report Post »Shotgun167
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 3:12pmAnd I still would be for the Blunt Admendment. The bill doesn’t say that the employer gets to stop you from paying for birth control. The employer gets to say that she isn’t going to pay for your birth control. If you can’t see the difference, you’re purposefully being obtuse. My employer doesn’t get to say where I take my paid vacation. They do get to say how much paid vacation they are willing to pay for. If it is to big an issue for me, I get to decide if I want to continue working for them. If you are so upset about not having your employer paying the $30/month that the pill costs, find another job. THAT is how it works in America.
Report Post »tgthompson
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 7:44pmShotgun167
Report Post »You hit the nail on the head.
Pacman116
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 6:58amPoor Desertrose. Who says your employer makes your choices? Only YOU can allow that to happen. You want contraception? Fine, go out and get it yourself. That makes it your choice, not your employer’s. Anyone’s wish to have someone else pay for it has no place in this country. Period. An employer has EVERY right to deny that type of coverage if it’s against his/her beliefs. If you can find one that wants to cover that for you, great! More power to ya. But to think that ANY employer should be required to cover contraception is assinine at the least.
Report Post »bertr
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:07pmDon’t have someone else to pay for your medical care and the problem is solved, of corse the person/people Paying for someones healthcare have a say in what they are paying for.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:38amWhat is sad is that Obama’s groupies believe this stuff. We may laugh but now the groupies community organisers have a piece of paper saying “this is what religious freaks from the TEA Party want to do to us.” The groupies will believe.
Report Post »Abraham Young
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 12:06pmExactly. Just like the “agrarian reform” of the Soviet Union, the “reforms” of the Obamanites will lead to a lot of suffering.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:37amthe communist skank Sebelius may as well be kissing under the tail of the Devil goat at their black Sabbath… that’s all this has been, communist obamacare mandates = pure Evil forcing our American Christians to pay for the mindless enslaved obamacoomunist obamademocrats to abort & kill their American children
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 10:02amAmericans need to take a hard look at his real objective,population reduction,through the murder of the unborn..the list of people he willing to kill will soon grow to include the old, the terminally ill, the crippled and the mentally ill..this man is truly evil……Obamacare will ration heath care and only the young and healthy will receive it..
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 10:42amyes.. only the collective’s DRONES will receive obamacare.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 10:55amMCDAVE, All of this has made me wonder over time if these loons actually see their own hand writing on the wall? They, will be getting older. They will also face debilitating diseases, and maladies eventually. Have they prepared themselves for the day that the government will deny them further medical care and allow them to die? Or, do they have that ruling class mentality expecting to be taken care of because they are superior ones?
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:15am@RJJINGADSEN …there may end up being heath care for no one…the more they try to fund this monster of socialism the faster our economy will collapse..the Catholic church is promising to close 600 hospitals because of his contraceptives mandate..Obama does not seem to care..he will destroy all that is good in our country..
Report Post »happ77
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:53amMCDAVE, Your right on the money. Early 20th century progressives to quote hillary.
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:36amYes. They lie everyday.
Report Post »BOstinks
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:35amAll of this nonsense is to cloud the true facts before us all. This man never intended to protect the country as we knew it. If he is as ‘smart’ as he claims then what other excuse is there for his complete failure. Let’s keep the spotlight on his record where it belongs. Time for him to move out of our White House and join Jimmy Carter on the side lines. Maybe he could build basketball courts and golf courses around the country for poor people?
Report Post »sarcoq
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 3:51pmHis being “smart” comes from the very record we view as “failure”. To him, they are not failures, but precisely what was his intent and on his agenda. He has successfully carried out the plan.
Report Post »bree001
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:35amLet’s get rid of these Occupy Washington people. Has anyone asked themselves why Obama can do something like this in an election year and feel supremely confident he is going to be reelected? Why Muslim and Islam extremists now occupy every state in the U.S.? Why both our borders are unprotected? Why our military is now being downsized and defunded? Why the rest of our military is halfway around the world dieing when Obama said he was going to bring them home? http://www.brendasblog7.com/home-page
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 10:58amGood questions. This is scarey crap coming from this administration and it will only get worse. The good people know what we need to do to fix this but how many bad people are out there? Most people I come across are NOT voting for Obama again, but how many cheats does he have planted around the country? The sooner we can get someone, anyone to re-place Obummer the better off we will be.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:30amseeing all those pix of obama kissing all those obamacommunist anti-American democrat white women, yeah really makes you wonder what they had to do to him and with him to get their elevated posts.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:37amWe know what billy boy made them do
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:45amWhat does the color of anyones skin have to do with anything in this article? Your post shows your idiocy…
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:29amobama has been lying all of his life. read his ‘mein kampf’, he would tell the other kids that his african commie father was a ‘prince’ etc etc etc, it’s all part of his half-muslim pure-commie make-up. (islam taciya:) LIE TO ACHIEVE YOUR AGENDA. that rabid animal obama is a LIAR.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:53amThis note is ridiculously childish. Circle yes or no? Grade school stuff. As an American citizen I’m embarrassed that our president (like him or not) & his reelection campaign have stooped to this level.
Report Post »But then I’m embarrassed by a whole lot of things Obama has done. All that bowing, apologizing, finger wagging, sarcastic & derogatory terms when speaking about groups of Americans, tantrum throwing….the list is long.
skiz
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:28am“Liar, liar, pants on fire”~ Dont you wish that actually worked?
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:34amYou betcha! LOL
Report Post »brickmoon
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:52amNah — then we’d have to pay the massive claims for all the 3rd degree burns in Washington.
Report Post »indy1
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:27amDemocrats love to impose their amoral lifestyle on the rest of us.
Report Post »Mia Cav
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:26amIf anyone from his admin told the truth, their lips would fall off.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:29amActually I think they would undergo spontanious combustion and disappear into a pile of ashes.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:42amYes We Can………..Lie and we do
Report Post »momrules
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:42amSnow……every once in a while I read a post that makes me laugh and yours just did.
Report Post »Can you imagine the ash piles littering D.C.?
MidWestMom
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 10:08amAsh piles = Broom, dustpan, wastebasket. Problem solved.
Report Post »:: sigh :: I wish getting rid of them was that easy.
Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 1:51pm@Snowy
Report Post »If only it were that simple, I got me a three motored Hepa vac on wheels, I’ll donate, demonstrate and clean after use!
copatriots
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 2:49pm@ MIDWESTMOM
Sounds like “shovel ready jobs”. Brilliant!
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:24amThey are framing the argument for you here. Notice the last sentence states “…does not have my permission to access.” How is not paying for something the same thing as preventing access? Last time I checked, the institutions gave people a paycheck. If they CHOOSE to buy birth control with it, they are more than welcome to. I don’t understand why that is so hard.
Report Post »IntheKnowOG
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:33amAgreed, yet again, the USELESS republican party leadership allows the left to use semantics to lie. Access is not, and has NEVER been blocked to contraceptives. Any person in this country can walk into a drugstore and PURCHASE contraceptives. What’s next, conservatives are blocking access to food by alowing supermarkets to CHARGE for groceries? Same argument, c’mon RNC, start doing your job.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:39amIt’s not hard to understand. Insurance provided by an employer is a benefit. The government should have no authority to dictate what benefits are provided by any private company. What’s next, a manditory number of sick, personal and vacation days? Maybe, meals should be provided? Transportaion to and from work and child care?
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 10:13amand the government should not have the authority to mandate that citizens purchase anything. Including health insurance. What’s next? Will we all have to buy brown shirts?
Report Post »Fipper
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:21amThey might think this is funny or a clever thing to do for the dear leader. But, –isn’t that what he is already doing giving exemptions from healthcare coverage for unions and all his contributors?
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:21amQ: Did obama camp flat-out lie about ______________ (fill in the blank)?
A: YES (100% of the time)
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:20amIt IS scary to think anyone believes one word that comes out of this President’s mouth–or any of his cohorts, either. We cannot believe one word they say.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:19amObama wouldn’t know the truth if he spoke it. He has lied so much he don’t know himself what the truth is. He only knows how to read whats on his promter-
Report Post »bccrane
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:17amLie #6: The Obama administration has now with this mandate made it necessary for employers to need this permission slip and the inquistions otherwise without his meddling this whole argument isn’t even needed.
Report Post »islamhater
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:16amThe real question is. Has he ever told the TRUTH?
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:31amnot according to his own mein kampf, read his books, he has lied about everything about himself since his indonesian muslim mosque childhood, and is not at all ashamed of it.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:15am.
I have a question?
Is it too late to perform those Late Term Abortions the Democrat’s love so much on the Whole Party? Or at the least Spay & Nutter the whole lot, to help control the country’s carbon footprint………
Report Post »BernieKittyCat
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:37amThey self-pseudo-spay themselves. Find out about who uses Planned Parenthood’s abortive services.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:14amEverytime I see that picture of Sebelius and Obama kissing each other blissfully, I just wanna puke and shoot things up…
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:21amThink maybe they are having fun while fat ass michelle is out spending our money. Heck billy boy was making hay…. just saying
Report Post »BlueStarMom
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 4:18pmIt really is disgusting. Bravo to the photog for catching it at just the right moment for maximum gag effect. I don’t believe you could find two less kissable people on the planet. Well, maybe Princess Nancy…
Report Post »mayihelpyou
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:13amNewsflash!
Report Post »The Obama administration LIES!
Kerri g
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:12amDo we really have that many people in this country who beleive everything that comes out of the Presidents mouth? That is very scary!
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:11amSo funny that I forgot to laugh
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:09amObama lied? Listen BLAZE that is an awfully dangerous finger to point at the POTUS. The IRS should be knocking soon.
Report Post »He does not seem to mind being called a turd in a punch bowl however…i do it all the time…So far the IRS has not stoped by.
Susie40
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 12:58pmRJJINGadsen
Report Post »Did you not get the point that the elected officials are exempt from Obamacare? They won’t worry about their own aging or contracting cancer or senility.