I was reading the comments on the online version of our local newspaper regarding this last night at work and had to quit I was getting so angry!!!!
These people are so f'n stupid with their so-called statistics! It doesn't matter if Catholic women use birth control or not! I did and I figured it was between me and God, and I was fairly certain He wanted me to use some responsibility with regard to my ability to bring a child into this world and to provide for it.
Like someone said, further up the thread, there are all sorts of birth control and the only fool proof one is abstinence! None of them are perfect. I have a 32 yo because I left the diaphragm in the drawer (
) and a 5yo grandson because my daughter had taken antibiotics earlier in the month and her pills didn't work. However, we were both in situations where the world didn't come to an end because we were pregnant and abortions were not even consideration. Regardless, it was still OUR responsibility to obtain our birth control of choice and it was not covered on our health insurance. Not in the late 1970's nor in the mid 2000's.
Birth control can be obtained at Planned Parenthood and the local Public Health Clinic for free or for minimal costs. I know BC pills have risen in astronomical costs over the years, which I'm sure we can thank lawyers and insurance companies for the rise in costs, as with all pharmaceuticals. But there ARE options out there for those who can't afford them.
I do think it is unfair that Viagra and Cialis are covered by insurance and BC pills or other types of Rx birth control. That however, is another issue entirely.
All that being said, NO employer should be forced to have to provide health insurance with BC coverage, if it is against their religious beliefs. NOR should the government be the enforcer!!!!
Birth control is against the Catholic faith. It has been for centuries and it probably will be for the forseeable future. Don't like it, then don't follow the edict, and make it between the woman and God, NOT the woman and the United States Government!!!
I don't know how many Catholic women use birth control. I don't really care. Probably most of them in their child bearing years use some sort. For that matter, "rhythm" is a form of birth control, and some women have been very successful with it. I wasn't.
Catholic hospitals won't even allow vasectomies to be performed in the hospital, and removing any part of a woman's reproductive organs while she is in her "child-bearing years" needs to be well-documented for why it is being done. I was facing the possibility of an ectopic pregnancy, and one of the nuns came in to talk with me and to pray with me, prior to surgery because it would be taking a life. She wanted to make sure that I not only understood what was happening to me physically, but to prepare me emotionally. Thankfully, it turned out to be exploding cysts, but still resulted in the removal of the ovary and tube.
The Catholic Church is NOT trying to stop any employers from providing insurance to women that includes BC. What they are trying to do, is to STOP any Catholic employer from being FORCED by the US government, to provide BC provisions in their employees health insurance.
If an employee objects to that, then the employee is perfectly within their rights to go find a job somewhere else!!!
The Church objects to the government forcing the Faithful to go against their long held religious belief.
It ain't rocket science! I do not understand why people can't comprehend the real issues here.