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This is enforcement of a rule that has been determined to be in the best medical interests of women. Griswold vs Connecticut sets out just how important access to birth control is. It rests on the concept of individual liberty, that is supposedly so important to conservatives.

Do women still use them? They aren't exactly 100% effective in preventing pregnancy, are they?  

I speak from experience.  The Landsharks welcomed in the first heir from using this ridiculous device.  

However, diaphragms do provide the much needed comic relief and spontaneity that women so much enjoy when using birth control.   

 

Thanks Cat - Lowell George, the leader of Little Feat, and a heckuva of a slide guitar player?

I just think that a young woman working at Notre Dame, for example, should have the same ability to get birth control through her insurance company as a woman doing the same job at the University of Chicago. It's not like they're making the churches provide coverage.

Studies have shown that 98% of Catholic women use birth control banned by the Church. Only 2% of childbearing age woman use the recommended rhythm method suggested by the Church.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/14/us-most-catholic-women-us-use-birth-cont-idUSTRE73D4SZ20110414

Then there is that simple fact that many of these Catholic health plans already do have contraceptive coverage available for employees.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/12/02/143022996/catholic-groups-fight-contraceptive-rule-but-many-already-offer-coverage

Personally - I think that birth control should be available to women of childbearing age, regardless of who their employer is.  Even if it's a Catholic Hospital or educational institution.  I don't believe the government should pay for it, however. 

If a woman wants BC coverage in her plan, it should be available, even if the prescription cost is at a higher premium.  

I am opposed to the idea that women can't have access to the same medical coverage as other women, simply because of their employer being a religious based institution.  It's a slippery slope argument.  

It's not just BC.  It's reproductive health.  In this day, it's shocking that women do not have full access to BC pills or hormones or IUD's or whatever new method is now available.  

I found out after one of my kids was born that one of the doctors at my HMO's doctor's office was opposed to BC and wouldn't write the prescription for me to get my medication refilled.  This was a problem.  Particularly since I am not Catholic and broke no moral laws in asking for it. Normally, it would not be an issue- there were several docs in the practice that could do it, but that day this doctor was on duty and was "morally opposed".  

So I had to come back another day to get my prescription administered, which at the time was an injectable medication that had to be administered within a certain time frame in order to be reliable. Inconvenient for me - I had to miss work to come back for another visit.  Frustrating and stupid, too.  

 

 

 

-- Edited by SamuraiLandshark on Wednesday 25th of January 2012 07:01:40 PM

You started the thread and tossed out the bait. I'm just commenting on it. If you feel baited, that's on you.

I couldn't care less how the Catholic church feels about making birth control available. When someone starts tying them down and forcing birth control pills down their throats, then I'll line up with them. Until then, making them available at  reasonable or no cost should be none of their business.

Seriously, you must be baiting me, cartera. It's not possible to be that arrogantly dismissive toward 77 million people in this country. Just flick them off like a gnat.

Another case of the stupid party falling for conservative fear-mongering, huh? Even you can't possibly believe what you just wrote.

I'm starting to think you're trolling here for your own jollies.

 

No I read the article. It was a side note.

romani-

Did you read the entire article or read other pieces about the crux of this issue? From your response, I don't think you did. Hope is correct, it's much, much more than a contraception issue. And if this doesn't cause you concern as an American, then we are further apart than I thought possible.

http://blog.cleveland.com/letters/2012/01/obamas_ruling_on_birth_control.html

It's funny. I actually don't know any Catholics opposed to birth control. I definitely know older Christians opposed to birth control, but no Catholics. I come from a large Irish Catholic family, I'm dating someone from a large Catholic family, and we both went to Catholic school for 9 years so we know a LOT of Catholics. Maybe we just got lucky with liberal Catholics haha.