Birth Control Rule Clarified

[karaleigh]

No one is trying to prohibit birth control. Birth control is available now, and has been for decades. It is obtainable cheap or free. There is no shortage of birth control.

What’s new is that HHS is forcing Catholic institutions to provide insurance coverage with no co-pay covering oral contraception, sterilization, and abortion inducing drugs, against their will and against their conscience. All these items violate Catholic teaching. What’s new is the federal government forcing Catholic institutions to violate their own conscience.

Before the health care law was passed, the president said: “If you like your current health care coverage, you can keep it. Period.”

Now he says, no, you can’t keep what you had before. Now, you have to violate your conscience to provide health insurance coverage of our liking, not yours.

There is not now, and has never been, a shortage of contraception, or even of contraception coverage. There is and was no need for an HHS mandate requiring it. Contraception is widely available, even at low or no cost. There is no need to force Catholic institutions to pay for what violates their conscience. It is simply a violation of the free exercise of religion.

Back to the linked article…I read that religious universities can pull the contraceptives out of the vending machines. Students will have to go to their own provider. That’s what I got from the article.

 

[karaleigh]

A lot of people don’t realize that a huge bulk of the recipients of medicaid are not, and haven’t ever, paid into the system at all. Because of that, a huge bulk of the recipients are not making a contribution to the big pot from which their services are paid. Because of that, it is a huge financial burden on the State to provide these services, which can’t just disappear. Mandating insurance for all will add more funds to the pot, so that it will ease the burden to pay for our various communities’ needs.

For example, and this is only one example, take the 14 out of 50 girls who got pregnant in the high school in my town last year. they don’t even have jobs yet, and if they do, they haven’t had them for very long. And many of them won’t be offered insurance by their employers. Some will opt out even if they are offered. They have not contributed to the system, but they have applied for medicaid to pay for their pregnancies, and their children will be provided for by the state until the children are 18. By mandating that all employers who meet a certain criteria have to offer insurance, more people will be paying into the system, so that more money will be collected to pay for services. And yes, offering free ABCs will ease that burden because you know people will take advantage of it and use the ABCs. The mandate isn’t just merely to give a money break to those already utilizing ABCs in its various forms. It’s also to entice those who would be using it if it was more accessible. It may be against Catholic teaching to use those services, but you know many people will use that coverage. In the end, it will save the State money in paying for all those pregnancies and each child’s health and food for 18 years. ABCs (whether a pill, tubal ligation, vasectomy, etc.) are cheaper than paying for all those pregnancies and each child’s health and food for 18 years.

Just like people who don’t have children, don’t have diabetes, don’t use blood transfusions, and all pay into the system via their premiums, copays, deductibles, etc, so do those who don’t utilize ABCs. It’s all part of the same pot to pay for various services that not everyone will use.

This thread is not about government insurance policies and procedures, it’s about the fact that the Catholic Church with other religious denominations were able to get HHS to re-order the mandate to stop the sales/free samples of birth control at religious universities. Students must use their own providers. That is the issue here.
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[karaleigh]

You are far from the topic at hand. The question is whether an insurance company or hospital must offer procedures/practices that violate Catholic faith, and if employers must offer such insurance to its employees.

As an individual Catholic, I’m not having my religious liberty violated by choosing to use an insurance company whose hospitals provide such care. It’s my choice to sign up for that insurance, if its offered. The insurance company and my employer are not forcing me too.

Amen!

 

[karaleigh]

No one is trying to prohibit birth control. Birth control is available now, and has been for decades. It is obtainable cheap or free. There is no shortage of birth control.

What’s new is that HHS is forcing Catholic institutions to provide insurance coverage with no co-pay covering oral contraception, sterilization, and abortion inducing drugs, against their will and against their conscience. All these items violate Catholic teaching. What’s new is the federal government forcing Catholic institutions to violate their own conscience.

Before the health care law was passed, the president said: “If you like your current health care coverage, you can keep it. Period.”

Now he says, no, you can’t keep what you had before. Now, you have to violate your conscience to provide health insurance coverage of our liking, not yours.

There is not now, and has never been, a shortage of contraception, or even of contraception coverage. There is and was no need for an HHS mandate requiring it. Contraception is widely available, even at low or no cost. There is no need to force Catholic institutions to pay for what violates their conscience. It is simply a violation of the free exercise of religion.

My statement is not about taking birth control, it’s about having the choice not to make mistakes in the ready availability of birth control. With the ‘pills’ out of the way, students have a window, or an open space, to re-think their position on premarital sex. Thereby, offering them a choice in Freewill…the world or not the world said Satan to Jesus.
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