President of the United States Barack Obama has already promised to sign FOCA into law as soon as it hits his desk—and it’s well on its way already. There are a lot of potentially harmful consequences of this bill, from the potential harvesting of fetuses now classified as non-human to the closing (not selling; CLOSING) of all Catholic-owned hospitals in the United States as a matter of conscience. However, I have read the bill and discovered a potential silver lining in this storm-cloud that I have yet to hear anyone else discuss. 

Here is the opening of the FOCA:

 Congress finds the following:

(1) The United States was founded on the principles of individual liberty, personal privacy, and equality. Such principles ensure that each individual is free to make the most intimate decisions free from governmental interference and discrimination.

Note that this will be a law which requires Congress to recognize the primacy of “intimate individual liberty.” That means that, by the standards of our Democrat-run Congress, many of the laws passed by the “progressive” movement have foisted on the American public can no longer stand: from government mandates on what you can eat to where you can smoke. Laws interfering with the free use of privately owned firearms; the free expression of religion; even nationalized healthcare could be legally battled by this bill, given that nationalized healthcare requires government intervention in personal lifestyle.

Personally, I hope that through some Divine intervention, this bill never becomes law. However, if (and yes, when) Barack Obama DOES sign it into law, I hope that libertarians and conservatives have the wherewithal to use the ammunition that the liberals have handed them.