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Project Liberty Files Amicus Brief Against Obamacare and the Sibelius Decision on Forced Contraception Coverage Based on Commerce Clause and Religious Liberty Objections to Abortion

Contact: Allan E. Parker, The Justice Foundation, 210-614-7157

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Feb. 14, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- The following is submitted by The Justice Foundation:

    WHO: Project Liberty -- Women hurt by abortion and other citizens opposing Obamacare on religious liberty grounds because it expands abortion.

    WHAT: Amicus Brief at Supreme Court opposing Obamacare and HHS rule for forced contraceptives coverage by Catholics and others.

    WHERE: U.S. Supreme Court by Amicus Brief, Washington, D.C.

    WHEN: Filed February 13, 2012. Read the full brief here.

    ISSUE: Are Obamacare and the new HHS regulation unconstitutional because they violate religious liberty of those opposed to abortion and the commerce clause.

A diverse national group of 295 individual citizens known as "Project Liberty" object to Obamacare on the grounds it forces them to fund the killing of children in the womb (abortion and abortion-inducing drugs), thus violating their religious liberty, have filed an Amici Curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday.  Amici ask the Supreme Court to strike down the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care (Obamacare) Act, (which is currently before the Supreme Court on appeal) on the grounds that it violates the Commerce Clause, and perhaps uniquely among Amici because it also violates religious liberty. Read the Summary Argument. The case will be argued in March, and decided in June.

While the parties concentrate on the Commerce Clause, and other major arguments, it is an appropriate role for Amici to brief the Court on other issues that could be affected by a court's decision, but which the parties may not fully brief.

The recent action by HHS Director Kathleen Sibelius is given as one of at least three types of evidence in the Brief that the Act is a violation of religious liberty because it covers abortion (killing children in the womb) and is one of the first legal attacks on the new regulations. Read the Secretary's description of the Rule here. The President's supposed "compromise" does not solve the religious liberty problem, it merely attempts to hide it. The insurer will be forced to provide the coverage separately, but the employer will still incur higher costs. The HHS regulations are based on the Act, and if the Act falls, the regulations fall. Other evidence the Act is unconstitutional is because it allows funding for abortion through the billions appropriated for community health centers which could include funding Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in America, with over 800 centers. The Act also fails to include conscience protections to prevent governmental discrimination against health providers who oppose abortion on religious grounds.

Amici oppose abortion on religious grounds, and many of the Amici women actually had abortions, and refuse on religious grounds to participate in abortion again. They are also concerned that government expansion of abortions will result in more women being devastated by abortion, as they were.  They do not want other women to suffer as they have.

The Brief was filed on behalf of Amici by The Justice Foundation, President Allan Parker, and the National legal Foundation, President Steven Fitschen, and Kathleen Cassidy Goodman.

Amici available to talk to the media for interviews include: JoAnn Fleming -- Executive Director of Grassroots America - We The People and the major organizer of Project Liberty; women who had abortions, including Tina Brock from Georgia, Kathy Hill of Texas, Karen Holdren of Michigan; Carla Stream of Wisconsin, Nicole Cooley (rape victim) of Virginia.

Men Who Have Been Hurt By Abortion: Fr. Tom J. Kennedy (Roman Catholic Priest), who also works in abortion recovery movement, and Robert Hill.