Paul Ryan: HHS mandate will be gone on ‘day 1’ of a Romney administration

ORLANDO, September 24, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan gave the HHS mandate its execution date if he is elected: “Day one.”

The Wisconsin congressman said if he and Mitt Romney win the election in November, the requirement that religious employers, including many religious employers, to provide contraception, sterilization, and abortifacient drugs, “will be gone, I can guarantee you that.”

Responding to a question from one of more than two thousand people at a rally at the University of Central Florida, Ryan said the regulation constitutes “an assault on religious liberty.”

The phrase echoes a press release the self-described “pro-life Catholic” put out in February. “The Obama administration failed to recognize this mandate is in violation of our First Amendment right of religious freedom,” he wrote. “His decision disrespects not only the religious community, but it also disrespects the Constitution.”

The vice presidential nominee has increasingly attacked President Obama for his single-minded focus on abortion, which the president has made the centerpiece of his re-election campaign.

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