If Obama Can Control Catholic Beliefs, What Can't He Control?

The Democrats can't help showing their ugliest side.

Unfortunately for them, these days, they usually have no other side to show.

After the controversy that whacked the Susan G. Komen Foundation (established in 1982 for the noble goal of funding breast cancer research) for declining to continue funding Planned Parenthood(originally established in 1921 by a racist, eugenicist named Margaret Sanger for the considerably less worthy goal of providing abortions to those deemed unworthy of life), the Obama administration is showing no signs of giving way to its recently announced policy of forcing Catholic-run institutions to provide comprehensive health-insurance coverage to their employees, including all forms of birth control.

Forget what you read in papers -- the New York Times, USA Today and the usual dribble -- this isn't about condoms or The Pill, both of which are not only cheap but readily available to anyone who can fog a mirror. This is about what they commonly call "abortifacients." In other words, drugs that kill embryos in their mother's womb: abortion.

It's no secret that the Catholic Church abhors abortion. It is, in fact, to the Church, literally -- and liturgically -- murder. Forcing Catholic institutions -- universities, hospitals and charities -- that service millions regardless of their faith or backgrounds, to provide insurance coverage for what those institutions regard as the indiscriminate taking of human life is not only unconstitutional, at best, but simply unspeakable.

The latest word is that the White House is seeking some sort of compromise ("We're not trying to win an argument here. We're trying to implement a policy that will affect millions of women," spokesman Jay Carney said.). But on issues like this, there simply isn't a compromise: It's a life or it's not a life. Treat it accordingly.

Once again, the issue is not whether you believe a woman has the ultimate right to decide whether to allow another being to inhabit her body -- as some of the Rand-type libertarians think; or whether abortion,by surgical instrument or chemical ingestion, is murder, and should be treated accordingly.

The issue is whether the United States government, with all the forces of law at its disposal, can dictate what a religious organization can do, in accordance with its beliefs.

The reality is that federal lawmakers, led by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, are making every effort to undo this ugliness. The other reality is that we have a president who is more committed to abortion rights than just about any other issue (think Iranian nukes and how we're going to let Israel handle it.)

And that's about as ugly as it gets.