Students At Catholic Colleges Protest Lack Of Access To Birth Control

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/09/catholic-college-students-birth-control_n_1265771.html?ref=politics

Single, 18-year-old female, likes having control over her own body, looking for affordable birth control.

That's Keely Monroe's summary of her life at Fordham University, a Jesuit college in New York. "Finding contraception at Fordham was about as easy as finding a good man from a want ad," Monroe said of her alma mater at a press conference held Thursday in Washington by Catholic Students for Women's Health.

The students spoke in favor of available birth control on campuses in light of a new federal rule requiring most employers to cover contraceptives as part of their health insurance benefits. The mandate excludes churches and other houses of worship, but includes faith-based employers such as Catholic universities, which under the rule must also include reproductive services in their student health coverage.

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But a number of students attending Catholic universities have supported the new measure, an indication of the larger fractures in Catholics' attitude toward reproductive services. Surveys show that 98 percent of sexually active Catholic women have used contraception and that more than half of American Catholics say religiously affiliated colleges should be required to include birth control in health coverage.

[FarLeftFist]

1. K&R! I said this same thing the other day about the younger generation.

Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002286357

Thanks for this story.

[annabanana]

2. And our dear CorpoMedia© was ALL OVER IT!

(weren't they?)

[virgogal]

3. They should have gone to secular colleges-----plenty of them around.

[Yupster]

6. Are there no drug stores or grocery stores

within walking distance?

I never had trouble finding birth control. It's hard to go a mile without passing a store that carries it.

[virgogal]

8. I know----and Fordham is a very urban university,lots of stores nearby. Some

folks just like to whine.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. Does she also go to kosher delis and order BLTs?

Guess why I never went to a catholic university (apart from the fact tuition would be a killer)? I was having sex out of marriage and using birth control and I wouldn't have put up with the hassle.

I wouldn't even have applied.

[HockeyMom]

7. I am an only child born in 1948

by CHOICE of my cathlic parents. They sent me to catholic school more for the education than anything religious. My parents never went to Mass. No, my "catholic" parents weren't sterile. They used BC (condoms/diaphragm) in the 50s and 60s. I guess the catholic school must have thought my parents were sterile with only one kid. Yeah, right.

BC was the THE issue I parted company with them, as a teenager in catholic school. I knew, as an only child, when I grew up and married, I did not WANT as many "gfts" and "blessings" as God gave me as the Catholic Church. I wanted me and my husband to determine how many children we had; not the Catholic Church or "god".

[fascisthunter]

5. NEIN! You Must Have More Children!!!!!!!!!

we need more followers!!!!