Lawmaker Challenges Birth Control Ruling

[_Abyssinia]

ST. LOUIS (KMOX/AP) - A Missouri lawmaker is upset because his state-provided group health insurance requires abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization and birth control.

State representative Paul Wieland is taking Obamacare to federal court, contending that his civil rights should be protected under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

This morning, the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis heard oral arguments in a lawsuit by Wieland and his wife Teresa against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and two other federal agencies.

stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/09/08/lawmaker-challenges-birth-control-ruling/

 

[Cricket2]

As with many of these types of postings I keep stressing that I don’t believe we can make Faith law. There will never be a society that allows for all religious practices and beliefs, so in many ways I find it a futile effort to continue to take all these issues to court.

If you are a Catholic then you should practice your faith in terms of what the Church teaches about birth control, abortion, and other reproductive issues. But this does not mean you can force everyone else to comply with those teachings. All we can really do is invite people to the Faith and allow them the use of their free will. If we want to bring about change that is closer to the realm of our faith we need to provide adequate assistance to those facing choices they find nearly impossible to make.

We need health care systems that allow for all people to get care and that may mean that companies will have to provide for types of care we may not agree too. Unless we are all going to work for a strictly “Catholic” organization, I see no way to get around this. Do we create our own society within the one we now reside in? (Like the Amish.)

 

[_Abyssinia]

As with many of these types of postings I keep stressing that I don’t believe we can make Faith law. There will never be a society that allows for all religious practices and beliefs, so in many ways I find it a futile effort to continue to take all these issues to court.

If you are a Catholic then you should practice your faith in terms of what the Church teaches about birth control, abortion, and other reproductive issues. But this does not mean you can force everyone else to comply with those teachings. All we can really do is invite people to the Faith and allow them the use of their free will. If we want to bring about change that is closer to the realm of our faith we need to provide adequate assistance to those facing choices they find nearly impossible to make.

We need health care systems that allow for all people to get care and that may mean that companies will have to provide for types of care we may not agree too. Unless we are all going to work for a strictly “Catholic” organization, I see no way to get around this. Do we create our own society within the one we now reside in? (Like the Amish.)

How is the insurance plan for Paul Wieland paid for? I am not sure he pays into it does he? Hobby Lobby won their case, so have multiple other for-profit cooperations, and non-for profits have won injunctions, so there are may more people so far, who have won their cases against parts of the HHS mandate, than lost it.

But for employers who pay for insurance, check out this excerpt from this interview that Cardinal Burke gave:

Thomas McKenna: “So a Catholic Employer, really getting down to it, he does not, or she does not provide this because that way they would be,in a sense, cooperating with the sin… the sin of contraception or the sin of providing a contraceptive that would abort a child, is this correct?”

Cardinal Burke: “This is correct. It is not only a matter of what we call “material cooperation” in the sense that the employer by giving this insurance benefit is materially providing for the contraception but it is also “formal cooperation”because he is knowingly and deliberately doing this, making this available to people. There is no way to justify it. It is simply wrong.”

catholicaction.org/2012/04/employers-providing-contraceptives-materially-and-formally-cooperating-with-sin/