President Obama - please look at this before talking to the Catholic bishops:

[hedgehog]

"Then, there's this question: Institutions would have to purchase contraceptive coverage as part of a health insurance package, but no one forces anyone to use it. So does the "conscience question" arise with purchase of a plan or only its use? Or both? Most women, Catholic or not, have no problem using it. And no doubt most would welcome having it as part of their health care plan without a co-pay.
I have also been looking for an analogy that makes sense, and Chris Matthews, who seems to be as torn as I am, named one recently. Could the government force a Quaker college to have ROTC on campus? I rather doubt it. Another came to mind: Can the government tell a Christian Science college that they have to have health insurance at all? Again, I doubt it.I hope the Obama administration, which clearly underestimated the uproar and is desperately trying to muddle through the controversy, finds a way around this issue that satisfies both sides. It won't be easy.



The real solution? Single-payer health care. Then there is no employer in the middle; it's strictly the decision -- and the conscience -- of the individual.

http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/contraception-clash-leads-more-questions-answers

[atreides1]

1. Where does it stop?

Why are so many willing to throw woman under the bus...and this probably includes other women?

[truedelphi]

2. Most catholics like Birth Control. Unfortunately this issue is being

Framed by our beloved disinformation and propaganda powers: that is, the Mainstream Media.

They pull out of their M$media slimey butt some radical Catholics who frame the issue as being one that Catholics support. They don't. Catholics will even have abortions. Though that is something they prefer to nopt talk about.

[FarLeftFist]

3. Every Catholic I've ever had sex with has been on birth control and made sure I used a condom.

[Tx4obama]

4. Please see the interview on the link below

Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/101711214

[limpyhobbler]

5. "The real solution? Single-payer health care." - yep. Get employers out of the health care equation.

[hifiguy]

6. The conflict is a manufactured one

All your employer does is send YOUR money out of YOUR paycheck to the insurer they are contracted with. Eff the RCC and the horse it rode in on. They made their money the old fashioned way - extorting it from the peasants at the point of a sword.

Although single-payer is by far the best possible system and I support it 100%.