Posted on 02/07/2012 4:09:58 AM PST by 1010RD
Catholic leaders upped the ante Monday, threatening to challenge the Obama administration over a provision of the new health care law that would require all employers, including religious institutions, to pay for birth control.
As CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer reports, it could affect the presidential elections.
Catholic leaders are furious and determined to harness the voting power of the nation’s 70 million Catholic voters to stop a provision of President Barack Obama’s new heath car reform bill that will force Catholic schools, hospitals and charities to buy birth control pills, abortion-producing drugs and sterilization coverage for their employees.
“Never before, unprecedented in American history, for the federal government to line up against the Roman Catholic Church,” said Catholic League head Bill Donohue.
Already Archbishop Timothy Dolan has spoken out against the law and priests around the country have mobilized, reading letters from the pulpit. Donohue said Catholic officials will stop at nothing to put a stop to it.
“This is going to be fought out with lawsuits, with court decisions, and, dare I say it, maybe even in the streets,” Donohue said.
But pro-choice groups said they will fight the church and fight for the right of employees of Catholic institutions to have birth control and other services paid for.
“The Catholic hierarchy seems to be playing a cynical game of chicken and they don’t seem to care that the health and well being of millions of American woman are what’s at stake here,” National Abortion Rights Action League President Andrea Miller said.
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Thanks 1010RD.
A woman called into Rush’s show yesterday and said something along the same lines. Abortifacients and birth control aren’t preventing or curing any disease.
In fact, there are long term health effects for women who use birth control, and there are myriad women who’ve had abortions who can contest that they ruined their ability to have children again.
Technically correct, but allowing it to be USED by other-than-spouse, AND, then "deciding" to terminate a life is NOT a "Woman's Right" in any MORAL way.
Just as in the Terri Schiavo case, they re-directed it from the husband's culpability to the issue of "right-to-die."
It wasn't about "right-to-die." It never was. But the re-direction worked. Conservatives were made to look like extremists.
The same will happen here.
Liberals will re-direct the issue from the Church being forced to support abortions to the issue of birth control.
I am a practicing Catholic. But I have always thought the Church's stand on birth control is extreme and stupid. I think most Americans believe this too.
Birth control is not the issue. Abortion is the issue. And forcing Catholics to act against their beliefs is the issue.
Do not let liberals get away with this re-direction again. It it too important.
This is worth repeating. We've been in a state of soft tyranny for a long time. WE complain about this or that infraction of our Rights and nothing happens, nothing has been fought for, or our concerns have been passed out of hand by the courts for the 'greater good.'
Now the 'hardness of tyranny' begins. Even if the Catholic Church "wins" this mandate ruling as un-Constitutional we have already witnessed court rulings mean little to this government. So the Church wins and what of the faithful forced by their private / public sector employers whose insurance policies will extract the money from them as part of the group coverage? Is this not against the teachings and morals of Catholics/Christians as well? Are not Rights afforded to the individual in these matters?
As Catholics and Christians if one were to consider all the things the 'public' forces onto us and like sheep to slaughter we've handed over our Rights in the name of political correctness.
Re:birth control
I’ve seen it happen more than once where someone I know was on birth control and had a very hard time trying to conceive once they where ready to have kids.
My youngest daughter had a couple of miscarriages that were attributed to birth control pills.
She finally did manage to have 3 beautiful grandchildren (for us) but each time she had to have her blood monitored and ‘thinned’.
She and her husband are now done (he got snipped) so 3 is enough.. :0)
Let’s remember this assault on our religious freedom didn’t come in the form of a law. It is a diktat from our elected tyrant.
The rats have controlled both houses of Congress and the Presidency several times since Roe v. Wade. Not once did they bring a bill to the floor to turn Roe into statute.
Nor would our elected reps today consider passing a law to criminalize a Churches refusal to provide abortion services.
As long as unelected bureaucrats are illegally empowered to make law, as long as the law depends on the whim of one man, we are not a republic, and will continue our slide into despotism. FUBO.
You wrote:
“Still, if Catholics would follow their religion and its conscience you’d not see another Democrat elected this century.”
Get real. There are 65 million Catholics in this country. There are 240 million non-Catholics and many of them vote for Democrats.
I’m not yet married but have the lady in mind. She’s over 35 and a smoker, so birth control has been out of the picture for a while. I’m praying for enough time to make her an honest woman and have at least 2 kids knowing that 40 is one of those lines in the sand.
An old girlfriend of mine went on BC in her early 20s. She was on a host of other meds for some dermatological issues. Once she started on the BC, her body went ballistic. Last time I saw her she was over 300 lb. and was covered in benign subcutaneous cysts. Hormones are a nasty thing to play with!
Amen to that.....
It isn’t just this President who can’t be trusted. It’s the entire Federal Government, Congress and the Courts included.
The CINO’s will be rooted out and run out of the Church.
This is how we beat him in November!
I would not be surprised to see Obama back down on this one point later this year, just in time so that all the liberal Catholic organizations and bishops can publicly proclaim that it's safe to vote Democrat again.
The Catholic hierarchy should have realized before now that the Democrat Party is a package deal. You want "social justice" and "free healthcare"? You have to accept abortion too.
Great point! I wonder how university of Notre Dame feels now?
fought out in courts, just like govt wants
You are correct.
And what is your church doing to fight against this?
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