- For starters, all churches--or any other type of house of worship-- are expressly exempted from the requirement that they offer health insurance to their employees that includes any provision for contraception. The issue under discussion involves whether other entities owned and operated by a church should be obligated to do so under the law.
- Nobody is, in any way, obligated to acquire or use contraceptive devices. The regulation applies only to what insurance companies must offer-not to who must take advantage of the benefit. Thus, if your religious belief bars you from using contraception, then nothing will get in the way of you and your religious beliefs. You may have the benefit available to you in your insurance coverage, but nothing is going to require you to take advantage of the benefit.
- The law does not require medical care providers to prescribe contraceptives. If the religious belief of a physician or other health care worker is such that they do not believe in contraception for religious reasons, nothing in the law --or the regulations-would require a doctor or care worker to prescribe a contraceptive device.
- Drugs, such as RU486 that cause a woman to abort a pregnancy, are not included in the law or regulations. Nothing would require a health insurance company to include this in their policy offerings and, certainly, nothing would require anyone to take such a pill.
- It's not like this is something new as over 50 percent of Americans already live in states that require health insurance companies to provide contraception in their policy offerings. Further, states like
It should also be noted that most women, including 98 percent of Catholic women , have used contraception." If one would look at the statistics for one moment, it is clear what this is all about: More right wing, Christian coalition, dark ages cometh again, political ideology"nothing more."
The major issue which has fallen into another ring of hell along with the ongoing fight against Planned Parenthood, is the covering in this plan of "Plan B" or the "morning after" pill. The Christian right has denounced this medication because in their opinion, it constitutes abortion or more dramatically stated, murder most foul . These same people have claimed that Obama is promoting Planned Parenthood and the evil it represents but they have been singing the same song since the 80's regardless of who was President at the time.
With all this talk of abortion and the rise of evil, Liberal Feminists pushing abortion pills on innocent Catholics (laughs to self), one would be inclined to believe it was Obama who created the abortion pill. Facts though, as usual, consistently escape the mind of the neo-con, Christian. In fact, and just in case you were wondering, "on August 24, 2006, the FDA approved nonprescription behind-the-counter access to Plan B from pharmacies staffed by a licensed pharmacist for women 18 or older; a prescription-only form of Plan B was made available for younger females aged 17 and younger." ( Wikipedia ) Does anyone remember who was president at this time? Let me remind you: George H. W. Bush.
At the end of the long, crazed day and after all the vitriol is said and done, these events of late represent nothing more than religious and politically ideological attempts by Christian Right to demonize anyone who differs in opinion or party affiliation than they. This is nothing new to most, but what has changed in the attacks of the past three years is the vehemence with which they are being employed against the current President as if no other event in history had ever preceded his Administration's policy enactments.
The current attempt to raise our spiritual ire against the "anti-Christian" dogma of this President has in the past been proven to be and will most assuredly in the future be proven again to be, nothing more than one more desperate attempt to discredit our President by those who would hate him for condemning their beliefs for his own (and the millions of Americans who agree with him). No matter the topic or the policy involved, be it from a past President either Democrat or Republican, the right will find a problem with
And the Hate Machine rolls on
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