98% of American Catholic women use birth control

[Stinky The Clown]

That was a bullet point in a local Eleven O'Clock Nooz story tonight.

98%

That's significant, huh?

Makes me wonder why Baltimore's archbishop is saying he will cancel healthcare insurance for all the archdiocese's employees rather than provide them with birth control.

That chutzpah just amazes me.

I bet he would vote for Ricksmegma.

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 99 percent of sexually-active women use birth control, including 98-percent of Catholic women.

Baltimore Cardinal Edwin O’Brien threatens to drop health coverage for 3,500 diocese employees saying, “We cannot, we will not, comply with the unjust law.”
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http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2012/02/09/md-looks-for-compromise-as-the-catholic-church-white-house-battle-over-birth-control/

[Quantess]

1. The catholic church insists on being backwards.

If they keep this up they'll have no followers left. How unrealistic can they get?! People don't want 15 kids in these modern times.

[bayareamike]

2. Just to be clear,

It's 98% of sexually active Catholic women. Still, that's incredibly significant.

[earthside]

3. It is amazing.

After the years of sex abuse scandals and cover-ups, for this so-called religious leader to threaten his own employees with the loss of health insurance -- out of a fit of political pique -- it is amazing.

And I call it political after seeing today that hundreds of Catholic organizations around the country have already been providing birth control as part of their health insurance coverage for years. Now, all of a sudden in a presidential election year, this becomes a great "freedom of religion" issue?

Besides, isn't the real 'compromise' for all Catholic employees to refuse to use the birth control benefit ... then the church won't be paying for contraception no matter what the federal rule?

But, of course, the 'bishop' himself knows that 98 percent of sexually active adult Catholics are already poking a stick in his eye on birth control. (And that's what he really can't stand.)

Anyway, compassion and concern for the health and happiness of his flock are obviously not of much concern to this church 'leader'.

[Cleita]

4. I dunno about that statistic.

How about all the religious, sisters and nuns who probably don't need it? That being said, I'm sure 100% of lay women have used it at one time or the other.

[Itchinjim]

5. Growing up Catholic, I knew families of 10, 12, 15, and even 20 children

I myself come from a family of eight kids, Today the children of these same families have two or three kids at the most. So this can only mean that today's Catholics are using birth control, or they're having less sex than their parents and grandparents. My guess would be the former.