Obligation for insurance plan without birth control?

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Was listening to a show talking about the HHS mandate and it got me wondering. Are Catholics obligated to have an insurance plan that does not provide birth control or is it enough to restrain from using birth control even though the secular workplace plan does cover it?
 
catholiclady11 said:
Was listening to a show talking about the HHS mandate and it got me wondering. Are Catholics obligated to have an insurance plan that does not provide birth control or is it enough to restrain from using birth control even though the secular workplace plan does cover it?
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No, you are not obligated to have such an insuranced plan. And right now, with the ACA mandates you cannot do so even if you want to. That is included in the bundled pacakge of services-- 10 that are mandatory.
 
Even though you do not use ABC, you are paying into the plan so that others can use it. It may be remote cooperation with evil, but still…
 
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Even though you do not use ABC, you are paying into the plan so that others can use it. It may be remote cooperation with evil, but still…
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But wouldn’t that same logic apply if you shopped at a pharmacy or store that sold birth control? Then it seems there would be almost nowhere to shop. P
 
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Even though you do not use ABC, you are paying into the plan so that others can use it. It may be remote cooperation with evil, but still…
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We are not required to go without insurance, or not select the best overall plan for our family, just because it includes birth control. All plans now include coverage for BC. The OP needs to refrain from using it herself. She doesn’t need to cancel her coverage.
 
But if you are a Catholic and an employer, you may not offer your employees these plans because you are then involved in formal cooperation with their access to objectionable procedures, and you have no control over what they do with that coverage.
 
The Catholic Church needs to make its own insurance company that does not cover anything that is against Church teaching. Then Catholics could enroll in that plan and not have to worry about these problems.
 
catholiclady11 said:
Was listening to a show talking about the HHS mandate and it got me wondering. Are Catholics obligated to have an insurance plan that does not provide birth control or is it enough to restrain from using birth control even though the secular workplace plan does cover it?
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First, thank you for abiding to God’s law by not using contraceptives. No, you are not obliged to forgo your current plan just because it provides for morally objectionable services, at least not until the Bishops advise otherwise. So far they have not done so.

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