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Originally Posted by RichieLion
Truth or not; there's no merit or justification in attempting to compel the Catholic Church, against it's teaching, to provide birth control pills, and to provide them free of charge, to boot. There is nothing stopping Catholic women from purchasing these pills of their own free will.
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Did I miss something? I thought all this hullabaloo was in response to a new HHS regulation that required the health insurance policies provided to employees of private hospitals, including those owned and operated by various Catholic dioceses, to include coverage for birth control prescriptions.
The church is not being compelled to provide birth control pills, nor are the hospitals they own. And the female employees of those hospitals aren't being forced to take the pills. If they feel strongly enough about their religious beliefs, it will simply be a feature of their coverage that they can choose not to use.
Wow! The far right has really twisted this story to make it sound like the President himself is forcing Catholic women to take birth control pills that violate their religious beliefs. Seems like a far stretch from what's actually happening to me.
I wonder what percentage of Catholic women actually follow that precept of the Church these days anyway?