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Friday, March 16, 2012

The Maine Wire: M.D. Harmon: A battle for the future of freedom

M.D. Harmon: A battle for the future of freedom
Those of us in the opinionating business are often accused (not always incorrectly) of overselling the usual twists and turns of politics by uniformly describing them as world-shaking events that will produce utterly shattering ill effects unless they are countered, rejected or overturned.

Well, Obamacare, conservatives’ shorthand name for the administration’s massive rewrite of the U.S. health care system, really is one of those future-altering events, and people who pay attention to politics on all sides of the spectrum know it, even if those who favor it tend to downplay the changes it will bring.

We’ve been finding out over the past few weeks that President Obama and his minions (no, not those little yellow guys with goggles, but serious, hard-line leftists) are trying to negate our basic constitutional right of freedom of religion.

And that’s why there are very good reasons for people who, like myself, are not Roman Catholics, nevertheless to support that church and its leaders in their current fight to overturn President Obama’s straight-from-the-throne-room decision to make all health insurance policies cover all forms of birth control, including those that induce chemical abortions.