Should illegitimate children be denied insurance coverage from Catholic institutions?

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Indeed, perhaps the only true positive that came out of it …
I don’t know that anything ‘good’ came out of it. But like everything else, we all have to work with what we’ve got. 🤷

People will either grow to learn that positivity works better than negativity or they won’t, and that there has to be balance.
 
I know people are mentioning the horror stories about how badly illegitimate children were treated before abortion, but a lot of times it was catholic hospitals and orphanages that took care of these babies who were usually abandoned (other groups i’m sure did so as well). I understand the women were treated worse (they shouldn’t have been), but it wasn’t because of roe v wad that they were treated better. Honestly if anything, those mothers who had emotional scars from out of wedlock kids are the equivalents of the mothers who had abortions. Both things are terrible, which is why we need to emphasize chastity and family
When you figure out how to instill self respect, integrity and good old fashioned moral values in someone who thinks there’s nothing wrong with premarital sex or ‘casual’ sex, let me know 😛 It’s frustrating to have someone laugh in your face when you mention chastity, because they think everything goes and they are exactly where they want to be in life. As a single, chaste woman sucessful in her life and career, I am exactly where I want to be. But I’m as happy with myself as the next person. So how does one convince them they are wrong, when they think you are wrong?

I think the horse has been out of the barn way too long. Going back to the forbidden now that it’s the cool thing to do is going to be very difficult. You can find many people who might concede that casual sex is wrong, but not premarital sex. That taboo has been normalized too long. OUr culture as changed too much. Damage control is probably the better approach then trying to go back in time.
 
Nothing in Church teaching condemns illegitimate children. Nothing in Church teaching considers their existence sinful. On the contrary, they are considered children of God and entitled to treatment as would any human being be. Perhaps you are confused in thinking the Church considers “having a child” out of wedlock is a sin. Having intercourse outside of marriage is considered a sin. Giving birth to a child is not, regardless how the child was conceived.

STDs may or may not be contracted as a consequence of sin. But having a disease is not, itself, a sin, regardless of how it was contracted.

Undoubtedly, someone wanting medication for erectile dysfunction but who is not married intends to use the medication for a sinful purpose. Or, at least, I am unaware of any medical use for it other than enhancing erections for the purpose of intercourse. So, if there is some exception, I am not aware of it.
Exactly. 👍

The OP’s comparison is not apt.
 
Having a child outside of wedlock is also a sin,
Not so. Fornication is the sin.
so should illegitimate children be denied insurance coverage?
Your conclusion does not follow from your premise (which is also flawed). Your logic is completely flawed and your question is nonsensical.
If you say that birth control should be denied but illegitimate children should be covered, why?
Because they have nothing to do with each other.
What is the distinction? Where do you draw the line?
There is no line to draw.
 
The only laws that matter in this world are the laws that govern the medical community, and those laws protect contraceptives and give people easier access to them. One cannot obligate another person to follow laws dicated by one’s relgion, at least not in this world. And there is no way to enforce them anyway. The only way to conform the laws to this world, to the laws in the next world, is by changing them, not denying they exist. One can cover their ears, close their eyes and ignore something or someone, but be assured, someone or somethingis still there 😉 So saying they’re not, just makes it silly, not real.
You are basically saying that because a law exists therefore it is legitimate. That makes no sense. All types of laws have existed that are unjust. Authentic medical has to be grounded in more than opinion or law. If not, than we are sociopaths.
 
Not so. Fornication is the sin…
Correct. But that doesn’t change the way some people treat those who have gotten pregnant out of wedlock because they can’t remember that.

There are different thoughts to this. If you support a woman pregnant out of wedlock, there is the thought of rewarding them for bad behavior. If you don’t, you’re not being Christian and supportive of someone in need, and ignoring that there is a child involved. I think positive people will bring positive things to the situation, and negative people will bring negative things to the situation.
 
So there is a lot of talk about the mandate making Catholic institutions cover birth control for employees. This is because Catholicism views birth control as a sin. Having a child outside of wedlock is also a sin, so should illegitimate children be denied insurance coverage? What about treatments for STI’s or other sexual related diseases? What about ED medicine for people that are not married?

If you say that birth control should be denied but illegitimate children should be covered, why? What is the distinction? Where do you draw the line?
Like others have already said, having a child outside of wedlock is not a sin. Using contracceptives or engaging in premarital sex are considered sins, not conceiving, giving birth or caring for a child, even if that child is illegitimate. 🤷 The line to be drawn then is between sin and non-sin. Since conception, birth, and care of a child is not a sin, even if the child is illegitimate, then your argument falls apart, of course no one would try to restrict such coverage! The problem comes in with contraceptives, the use of which as contraceptives is sinful, which is why catholics do not want to be forced to violate their conciences by participating in sin. Huge difference between the two.
 
You are basically saying that because a law exists therefore it is legitimate. That makes no sense. All types of laws have existed that are unjust. Authentic medical has to be grounded in more than opinion or law. If not, than we are sociopaths.
I’m saying that birth control methods are a part of legitimate health care and included in preventative health care. Denying it doesn’t make it so, it just makes someone look like they’re stamping their feet and pitching a fit, but in the end that’s all it is because it won’t make a difference. What matters is one goes to a healthcare facility, sees a healthcare professional, is prescribed treatment by a healthcare professional, insurance companies are billed and pay for service and all of this is a part of a legitimate legal medical record. That’s all that matters. Not someone’s opinion on it. It’s hard to take someone seriously when they deny an obvious fact. It’s much easier to interact with someone who wants to change something they don’t like, rather than just deny its existence because they don’t believe it’s relevent in their book of rules.
 
Using medication to treat an illness is fine. Using medication to supress a naturally functioning system is not.
Sometimes, medications which suppresses a naturally functioning system is the treatment for an illness; immunosuppressant drugs. I.E.—suppressing hormones for an overactive thyroid, immunity suppression for cancer treatment and organ transplant, suppression of folic acid for arthritis treatment,etc.

Your thought doesn’t work.
 
Sometimes, medications which suppresses a naturally functioning system is the treatment for an illness; immunosuppressant drugs. I.E.—suppressing hormones for an overactive thyroid, immunity suppression for cancer treatment and organ transplant, suppression of folic acid for arthritis treatment,etc.

Your thought doesn’t work.
All the things listed treat pathology. When taking hormone medication to suppress fertility to avoid pregnancy what pathology is being treated?
 
I’m saying that birth control methods are a part of legitimate health care and included in preventative health care.
That does not make it healthcare anymore than forced sterilization is healthcare. That something is done does make it legitimate unless we define legitimate as legal.
Denying it doesn’t make it so, it just makes someone look like they’re stamping their feet and pitching a fit, but in the end that’s all it is because it won’t make a difference.
I guess you would say that to those who were against slavery too.
What matters is one goes to a healthcare facility, sees a healthcare professional, is prescribed treatment by a healthcare professional, insurance companies are billed and pay for service and all of this is a part of a legitimate legal medical record.
Legal, but not legitimate. Unless reality is self defined.
That’s all that matters.
That is all that matters to you. Now we know how what happend in Germany happend.
Not someone’s opinion on it. It’s hard to take someone seriously when they deny an obvious fact. It’s much easier to interact with someone who wants to change something they don’t like, rather than just deny its existence because they don’t believe it’s relevent in their book of rules.
I see. So if it exists, it is legitimate. When euthanasia is in full swing will those about to be murdered hold your views of reality too?
 
There is no such thing as an illegitimate child. Providing medical care for a child is not a sin. Paying for someone’s child’s medical care is not a sin.

The Church teaches that contraception is a sin. To require the Church to pay for someone’s contraception is unjust. Anyone is free to buy their own contraception.
 
That does not make it healthcare anymore than forced sterilization is healthcare. That something is done does make it legitimate unless we define legitimate as legal.
Forced sterilization isn’t healthcare. Sterilization is part of healthcare in the US and other countries as well.
Legal, but not legitimate. Unless reality is self defined.
The reality is that birth control is a part of legitimate healthare.
That is all that matters to you.
Not just to me 🙂
I see. So if it exists, it is legitimate. When euthanasia is in full swing will those about to be murdered hold your views of reality too?
We’re not talking about euthanasia. We’re talking about what is included in healthcare today.
 
Forced sterilization isn’t healthcare. Sterilization is part of healthcare in the US and other countries as well.
If it is legal,by your own standard, is healthcare.
The reality is that birth control is a part of legitimate healthare.
It is not authentic healthcare. Unless we redefine healthcare as viewing normal cycles being pathologic.
Not just to me 🙂
To those that do not think critically, ok?
We’re not talking about euthanasia. We’re talking about what is included in healthcare today.
We are talking about how healthcare is defined as in legitimate versus illegitimate.
 
The ridiculous thing about posts about these threads contraception, gay marriage, or ordaining women priests is that certain individuals on these threads actually think that the Catholic Church is going to change Her mind on these topics. I’m not a very educated man, but I do know one thing for sure. IT AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN !!! That’s my :twocents:
 
If it is legal,by your own standard, is healthcare.

It is not authentic healthcare. Unless we redefine healthcare as viewing normal cycles being pathologic.

To those that do not think critically, ok?

We are talking about how healthcare is defined as in legitimate versus illegitimate.
Yes, people who think critically know that birth control treatments are part of legitimate healthcare. Lawyers, doctors and nurses are all capable of critical thinking, or they wouldn’t be able to do their jobs. So it’s a false statement to claim that only those who can’t think critically would recognize this fact. The fact is, some don’t agree with them. But those who don’t agree with them really don’t have any influence over those who are actually setting the standards and making the decisions (at least not enough of them exist to do so). Healthcare is defined as legitimate versus illegitimate not by the common layperson, but by those actually making those decisions. And they have determined that birth control is part of healthcare and legitimate at that. I understand this stresses you, but until that changes, that’s the way it is.
 
The ridiculous thing about posts about these threads contraception, gay marriage, or ordaining women priests is that certain individuals on these threads actually think that the Catholic Church is going to change Her mind on these topics. I’m not a very educated man, but I do know one thing for sure. IT AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN !!! That’s my :twocents:
I think those people who think that the Church will change their mind about contraception just don’t understand the teaching or the rationales behind the teaching. If they understood about the requirements of the unitive and procreative properties, they would know that the Church can’t change its teaching in this matter because it would contradict infallible teachings. In fact the same rules that apply to contraception apply to gay marriage, premarital sex, extramarital sex, cohabitation, etc. The foundation would have to change, and it won’t. It can’t.
 
Yes, people who think critically know that birth control treatments are part of legitimate healthcare.
Sure it is a covered code but it is not really medical care. What illness is being treated?
Lawyers, doctors and nurses are all capable of critical thinking, or they wouldn’t be able to do their jobs. So it’s a false statement to claim that only those who can’t think critically would recognize this fact.
Indoctrination can lead you to hold erroneous views. There are physicians that understand that supressing fertility for no legitimate reason is not medical care, are they wrong?
The fact is, some don’t agree with them. But those who don’t agree with them really don’t have any influence over those who are actually setting the standards and making the decisions (at least not enough of them exist to do so). Healthcare is defined as legitimate versus illegitimate not by the common layperson, but by those actually making those decisions. And they have determined that birth control is part of healthcare and legitimate at that. I understand this stresses you, but until that changes, that’s the way it is.
Again, that some group proclaims something does not change reality. For example, the state says murdering an unborn baby is fine. That does not change the essence of the act or what is being done. It is not legitimate in any authentic sense of the term. It is only “legitimate” to those who are misinformed and look to credentialed misfits as their authority.

Try as you might the secular powers you defend will not help you in eternity.
 
Using medication to supress a naturally functioning system is not.
All the things listed treat pathology. When taking hormone medication to suppress fertility to avoid pregnancy what pathology is being treated?
Exactly! A pathology is still being treated. It’s wrong, but nonetheless, treatment. Your definition is too narrow.
 
Sure it is a covered code but it is not really medical care. What illness is being treated?
The code would be the one for preventing pregancy, again, it’s preventative care.
Indoctrination can lead you to hold erroneous views. There are physicians that understand that supressing fertility for no legitimate reason is not medical care, are they wrong?
It’s their opinion, and their entitled to it. But their opinion will not get the claim denied by the insurance company, because it’s a legitimate billing code, matched with a covered diganosis, which is under preventative care.
Again, that some group proclaims something does not change reality.
Yes, that’s correct. And the reality is, legitimate healthcare is obtained in the healthcare field, obtained by legitimate healthcare professionals, and paid by insurance companies and medicare/medicaid.
Try as you might the secular powers you defend will not help you in eternity.
They don’t have to.
 
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