‘Where Are the Women? Here We Are!’: Female Experts Speak Out Against Obamacare Contraceptives Rule

The Heritage event on Monday, “Women Speak Out: Obamacare Tramples Religious Liberty,” featured female experts on religion and individual liberty, including Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (R-N.Y.), a former nurse and health care attorney, who called the Obamacare regulation “the largest single intrusion of the federal government on constitutional rights.”

“There’s been plenty of coverage of this controversy, but we’ve also seen a willful neglect of the many women’s voices that are speaking out in opposition to this mandate,” said Jennifer Marshall, director of domestic policy studies at Heritage, a conservative think tank.

“Obviously we can get a group of women together to talk about something that, well, really isn’t just about women at all,” said Maggie Karner, director of Life and Health Ministries for the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.

“We’re here to advocate for basic religious freedom,” she said. “And I don’t really give a rip what gender is speaking about religious freedom as long as somebody is talking about it.”