Posted on 02/08/2012 10:45:28 AM PST by SmithL
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., probably the Senate’s leading pro-choice voice, stepped into the debate over the Obama administration’s rule requiring Catholic institutions to provide birth-control coverage. The Archdiocese of San Francisco has called the rule an assault on religious freedom and the Obama administration is in damage-control mode with a critical voting bloc. Obama reportedly weighed the politics before approving the decision.
One analysis of these politics calculates that Obama’s decision will help him with young, secular women, Catholic or not, and that’s why the White House is standing firm while making noises about a compromise. Obama is touting the decision on his campaign website.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, where the lead editorial lambasts the rule, Boxer and Democratic colleagues Patty Murray of Washington and Jeanne Shaheen, defend the decision and accuse its critics (led by the Catholic bishops and joined by GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich) of mounting “an aggressive and misleading campaign to deny this benefit to women,” that is “being waged in the name of religious liberty.”
They argue that contraception is important to women’s health, is too costly not to include in standard health insurance, that most Catholic women want birth control, and that the “conscience clause” protecting religious institutions does not apply in this case. They also say it is the Catholic Church that is limiting religious liberty.
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“The poor” can’t afford $15/mo. for contraceptives? They seem to be able to afford beer, wine, cigarettes, having their hair and nails done etc. Why should taxpayers pay for their birth control?
Don’t forget cable tv.
“Weigh” out Barbara....
NOT.
I FNG hate these people so much. If a nuclear bomb exploded in DC and took all of these scumbags about I would cheer.
I've been a Catholic for 10 years. Based on my experience during those 10 years, I would say that statement is true.
For that reason, I don't think the Bishops will find many Catholics joining them in their fight.
The issue is not BC!!!!
The issue is the govt forcing mandates on businesses and individuals that they dont want to !
Niederauer in the letter calls the ruling “an alarming and serious matter that negatively impacts the Church in the United States directly, and that strikes at the fundamental right to religious liberty for all citizens of any faith.”
“For the first time in federal law, the government has determined that religious institutions such as Catholic hospitals, Catholic Charities and Catholic Relief Services are not truly religious employers because they do not have as their primary purpose ‘the inculcation of religious values’ and do not primarily limit their services to those of their own faith,” Niederauer wrote. “We cannot – we will not – accept this unjust redrafting of the principle of religious liberty which our Founders so rightly saw as an inalienable gift of God. People of faith cannot be made second class citizens. And faith based service to those in need in our society cannot be classified as non-religious by our national government.”
Killing a baby is not a benefit.
You are exactly right.
Why does Pres Zero want to give something to the dependent class with payment forced on business and non profit and taxpayers?
Because he thinks he can get away with it and get some votes.
Please add Gucci bags, free cell phones and SUV’s to the stuff a lot of “poor” people are running around with.
Why should “contraceptives” be part of any health insurance policy? Not that expensive, not used by everyone.
She says it’s important to womens’ health. Other than a male using a condom, sure seems to me the unprotected sex involved in most female contraceptives is a colossal health threat to women.
This old Witch and baby killer is such a communist..She hates the military and loves the fools that murder babies..
Barbara Boxer has never been loved by the military, veterans, their friends or family. She has a history of voting against troop funding and opposing military missions undertaken abroad. She voted against condemning MoveOn.org’s disgraceful, full-page New York Times ad that attacked the integrity of General David Petraeus. More recently, of course, she dressed down a brigadier general on national television, insisting that he call her “senator” instead of “ma’am.”
Is Boxer not the most obnoxious phony in Washington?
Can’t wait to murder all those black babies, right Babs?
Then they aren't Catholic.
There should be a very highly public excommunication of not only her, but any other Catholic politician that believes in abortion. That, in a nutshell, would be all Catholic politicians with "D" after their last name.
Again . . . a very public and loud excommunication with cameras rolling. And where are the American bishops?
why can’t any woman who “wants” these drugs get them - from a non-CATHOLIC hospital??
(crickets)
Barbara boxer is Jewish, not catholic.e
most Catholic women want birth control
I’ve been a Catholic for 10 years. Based on my experience during those 10 years, I would say that statement is true.
For that reason, I don’t think the Bishops will find many Catholics joining them in their fight.
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You are SOOO wrong. Most of the liberal (cafeteria) Catholics do NOT want the government telling the Church what they can and cannot do. They DO see this as an attack on freedom of religion.
As an aside, birth control per se is allowed. The case the Church makes is against artificial birth control...for several reasons. And remember ... ALL Christian denominations used to believe the same until somewhere around the 1940’s.
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