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Do the women of America really want to force Christian schools, religious ministries to the poor, and other believers into participating against their conscience in a pro-abortion and sexual-liberation agenda? Laura MacCleery of the abortion industry’s legal arm, the Center for Reproductive Rights, would have us believe so. But it’s not true.



What CRR doesn’t want you to realize is that many women are deeply religious. Women are, in fact, the backbone of Christian service and work in society. More women call themselves “pro-life” than “pro-choice.”

American women are not as heartless or as anti-religious as activists like MacCleery make it seem. They don’t share CRR’s view that abortion trumps every oth! er value. Whether or not women use contraception, women in America do not want to force their religious neighbors, friends, and churches to pay for other people’s abortion-inducing drugs and other activities that violate their sincerely held beliefs.



Most health plans cover contraception, and federal and state governments already subsidize it heavily. Only extremists would insist that our government must also coerce religious Americans to cover it themselves or be seriously penalized.

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