Democratic Candidate for Governor Wants Big Brother to Control Your Children!

   Congressman Bonior teams up with Senator Kennedy to pass the Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act (EPICC) to force all health insurance plans to subsidize FDA approved contraceptive pills and devices. In addition to violating religious liberty and an individual's right of conscience, this law undermines parents and expands state and federal government control of American children's sexual and reproductive health.
   If Senator Kennedy's bill (S. 104), and Congressman Bonior's sponsored bill (H.R. 1111) passes, President Bush will be forced to use his veto power or every private and public health insurance plan that has prescription coverage, will force employers and individuals, through taxes and insurance premiums, to confidentially fund unhealthy and morally objectionable chemicals and devices for children, without parental consent or knowledge.
   S. 104 and H.R. 1111 are in direct conflict with ERISSA, the federal law which frees self-insured health plans from state mandates in the twenty states that passed EPICC.
If Americans do not unite and provide the leadership needed to defeat EPICC, what will employers and individuals be forced to pay for next? Euthanasia, artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, cloning, coverage for non-married and same sex partners!    
    This bill is not about choice nor protection of women's health. It is about state and federal control of our children and what we finance in health care. This is a Totalitarian agenda, proposed by Planned Parenthood and the Alan Guttmacher Institute in "Uneven and Unequal Insurance Coverage and Reproductive Health Services" in 1993 and Improving the Fit Reproductive Health Services in Managed Care Settings" in 1996.
   By passing EPICC, legislators in twenty states have undermined a parent's right to shape the conscience of their children and most of our legislators have been manipulated to believe it is about women's health.
America prides itself on assuring parents the opportunity to raise children, without government intrusion and interference. A nation with the greatest political freedom is being undermined by a few powerful political interest groups.
   At this critical time, when the health and welfare of the American family, our Nation's future and our political freedom are at stake, Congressman Bonior needs to do as he claims and shoot straight. He needs to explain why he is sponsoring such insidious legislation.
   The Christus Medicus Foundation (CMF) is a not-for-profit organization that acts as a watchdog for the rights of children, parents and health care payers. Its mission is to assure American's a "conscientious choice" in what they pay for in health plans.