Despite the Obama administration’s promotion of abortion on demand and same-sex-marriage, as well as the Obamacare regulation it issued mandating that health plans provide cost-free coverage for contraception, sterilization, and abortion drugs (which the Catholic bishops have declared “unjust and illegal” and a “violation of personal civil rights”), Ambassador Hackett told the National Catholic Register: “I don’t have a problem representing this administration.” Hackett also told the National Catholic Register: “I like to focus on the positive. … There are so many issues where I feel the Obama administration is exactly on the right track. I’m going to focus on those issues and lift them up, so that we are a nation that is concerned about the poor in the world, the injustices in the world, and the issues of peace. Those are the issues that I can represent well.”
In the United States, however, at least 43 Catholic institutions are suing the Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services over the mandate that requires nearly all health insurers to offer contraceptives, sterilization, and abortion drugs without co-payments. The U.S. bishops say the mandate is a violation of religious liberty under the First Amendment. Among those institutions suing the Obama administration is the University of Notre Dame, which honored Ambassador Hackett with the prestigious Laetare Medal in 2012 for his life-long work in helping the poor and less fortunate. Despite the lawsuits and the Catholic Church’s opposition to the Obamacare mandate, Ambassador Hackett said in late October, “There are elements of the health-care agenda that are beneficial to the poor, and you can’t dismiss that–that poor people are getting care that they didn’t get before. Others may have views that are different, but I don’t a problem representing them,” the Obama administration.
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