Despite Catholic Church objections Obama administration make their decision on contraception
Cardinal Timothy Dolan welcomes opportunity to study proposed documents
Published Saturday, February 2, 2013, 9:35 AM
Updated Saturday, February 2, 2013, 9:35 AM
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eiriamach | Feb 02, 2013, 11:00 PM EST
It has taken lawsuits in federal courts to compel companies with insurance plans covering men's Cialis and Viagra to cover women's contraceptives as well. At this stage, the courts will not allow religious teachings to undermine national health policy, especially a religious teaching that requires discrimination against women's health care. And the suggestion that the USA is headed for more abortions under the Affordable Care Act is flim-flam false. At Washington Univ., St. Louis, Dr. Jeffrey Peipert showed that when women have a choice of contraceptives --free-- they choose the most effective (usually the most expensive) contraceptives AND the abortion rate falls 3- or 4-fold. And the media have (finally!) reported on studies that show the bishops' complaint about hormonal contraceptives causing abortion is completely false. So the dozens of lawsuits are a waste of time and Catholic parishioners' money. It's crazy that Catholic women who throw money into their church collections have been paying both for their own contraceptives and their bishops' lobbying to keep them paying for their own contraceptives, while paying also for their own half-worthless insurance policies! And they wage this battle against women's health care in the name of the male hierarchy's "religious freedom" -- it's incredible that it could happen in the USA.
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