HHS mandate is an assault on authentic womanhood

By declaring that contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients are necessary preventive care, the HHS mandate declares that pregnancy and a woman's fertility are abnormal conditions that need to be corrected. Where will this thinking lead?

It is completely reasonable to expect that once fertility is enshrined in law as an abnormality to be corrected, a similar disdain for women who choose to bear children will become mainstream. Indeed, such thinking has already been accepted in the political arena. In the Washington Post’s “On Faith” section, senior Newsweek editor Lisa Miller criticized the Republican presidential candidates for showing off their families with “smug fecundity”:

Especially worrisome is the inevitable corollary to that belief: Women should put their natural fertility first — before their brains, before their ability to earn a living, before their independence — because that’s what God wants.

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