California has changed its state health insurance rules to require that churches pay for elective abortions, drawing protest from some of the largest pro-life legal teams in the nation and a formal complaint.
“Forcing a church to be party to elective abortion is one of the utmost-imaginable assaults on our most fundamental American freedoms,” said Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Casey Mattox.
Mattox said California “is flagrantly violating the federal law that protects employers from being forced into having abortion in their health insurance plans.”
“No state can blatantly ignore federal law and think that it should continue to receive taxpayer money,” he said....