7/8/2014
The news media "pushes an agenda hostile to freedom," Anthony Hahn, president and CEO of Conestoga Wood Specialties, said Monday in an interview with National Review Online, a conservative webzine.
"I learned that the media can blow things way out of proportion by not necessarily stating all the facts or not stating the facts correctly," Hahn said in an interview one week after the Supreme Court exempted his company from the government's contraception mandate.
In a 5-4 ruling, the Court said the Obama administration violated the Hahn family's religious rights when it threatened to fine the conservative Mennonite owners for not covering emergency contraceptives in their company health plan.
Contrary to medical research, Hahn and his family, who oppose abortion on religious grounds, believe drugs such as the morning-after pill can destroy human life.
In objecting to covering emergency contraception, Hahn denied Conestoga Wood was taking "anything away from the women in our work force."
"We have always provided a very generous health-benefits package and we continue to do so," he said. "Women had access to contraception before the mandate, and they still have public access to the same contraception. We simply do not want to pay for abortifacient items. Nothing changed other than that the government was asking us to give up our rights."
Hahn has declined interview requests by this newspaper and other news organizations.
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