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The Heritage Foundation has posted a video of experts on religious freedom discussing Obama’s recent mandate that forces religious institutions to support the distribution of contraceptives and other abortion-related materials to their employees.

As Heritage reports:

“This week, two more Christian colleges joined other religious institutions in fighting back against that attack when they filed lawsuits against the Obama Administration for imposing an anti-conscience mandate under Obamacare. The controversial regulation forces almost all employers to provide health insurance coverage of abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives, and sterilization, without a co-pay.

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“George Weigel, a prominent Catholic scholar, says that Obamacare puts our society’s core in jeopardy: ‘What is at stake here ultimately is whether civil society will survive, and whether voluntary institutions or voluntary associations ranging from the traditional family to multimillion member organizations like the Catholic Church to small businesses will be allowed to function only if they imitate the government, only if they imitate the state.’”

Read more at The Heritage Foundation.