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Audio: Kishore Jayabalan on Mandates, Conscience, and Electoral Conseqences
Audio: Kishore Jayabalan on Mandates, Conscience, and Electoral Conseqences
Dec 26, 2025 8:27 AM

Kishore Jayabalan, Director of Acton’s Rome Office, was called upon this morning by America’s Morning News to weigh in with the view from Rome on the Obama Administration’s HHS mandate that most employers – including religious institutions – provide contraceptives, sterilization, and abortifacient drugs as part of health care coverage. He did so, and you can listen to the interview by using the audio player below:

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Previous mentary on the mandate decision:

Audio: Dr. Donald Condit on the Trampling of Conscience Protections

Jayabalan: Obamacare vs. the Catholic Bishops

Dr. Samuel Gregg: Obama and the Dictatorship of Relativism

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