Students At Catholic Colleges Protest Lack Of Access To Birth Control

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WASHINGTON -- 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.

Catholic Church leaders have denounced the rule as an affront to religious freedom. The policy was also criticized by Republican lawmakers, including House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who in a floor speech Wednesday called it "an unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country." Democratic Senate candidate and former Virginia governor Tim Kaine has also broken with the Obama

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1. I think the we are going to see a lot more pushback and activism from students at Catholic

Colleges and Universities on this issue. The Church has re-opened a can of worms and they may well end up losing another generation of educated Catholics by trying to impose their antiquated and failed ideas on sexuality and birth control. They didn't sign up for Republicanized Catholicism.