First Your Schools, Now Your Healthcare: Obama Sidesteps Congress to Redefine ‘Sex’

By Published on November 20, 2015

President Obama’s administration insists on forcing boys and girls in our nation’s public schools to share restrooms and locker rooms with each other. But instead of just targeting vulnerable children who must attend school, the administration seeks to expand its agenda to include vulnerable patients in dire need of healthcare.

How is the Obama administration doing this? As with much of its agenda, instead of going through Congress — where the people’s representatives would almost certainly reject its proposals — the administration is bypassing Congress by way of illegal executive agency action.

Congress writes laws. Executive agencies don’t; they merely implement the laws Congress passes. But the Obama administration has consistently ignored this essential division of governmental power and evaded voter accountability by rewriting the people’s laws through raw exercises of agency power.

Currently, the Department of Health and Human Services, one of the agencies under the Obama administration’s control, is trying to adopt a regulation that claims to “interpret” a provision of the Affordable Care Act. But instead of implementing Obamacare as written by Congress, which would be permissible, HHS seeks to rewrite it, which is impermissible.

 

Read the article “First Your Schools, Now Your Healthcare: Obama Sidesteps Congress to Redefine ‘Sex’” on redstate.com.

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