[Buckeye McFrog]

I have to agree with you based on the Church’s track record in Europe. Virtually every country over there provides government paid contraception and abortions. And rarely do you hear the Church make a peep about it.

Obama’s move is intended soley to provide a legal fiction fig leaf so that John Roberts can find this constitutional.

[utahagen]

I believe most European governments directly pay for or reimburse for birth control or abortion, rather than linking it to churches (or even specific businesses). Here in the US, Obamacare is making religious organizations be at least the indirect providers of contraception.

I don't expect the Catholic Church in the US to fight if the US government itself starts directly providing free birth control, but I am optimistic that Church will not allow its churches and schools — forget most of the Catholic colleges, which the Church cannot control — to be the means by which women get birth control.

Chaput alone will never cave on this issue. As bad as things are — and I concede they are very bad — there will be Catholic bishops who will go down with the ship before they capitulate on this issue.

Pray hard.

[Campion]

Virtually every country over there provides government paid contraception and abortions.

That's a critical difference. "Government paid" and "employer paid" aren't the same thing.