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It's 2012, and we're arguing about birth control (Mary Sanchez, Chicago Tribune)
I can't believe it either, Mary...
Mary Sanchez
Tribune Media Services
February 10, 2012
On Friday, the administration announced it would alter the policy to require insurance companies to provide free birth control in cases where religiously affiliated employers refused because of conscience. That may placate some religious conservatives, but don't count on it.
Despite the heated rhetoric, the controversy is not about religious conscience; it's about politics.
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The truth is, the desire to control, to assert one person's view of morality over another's choices, is coming from the other direction -- from religious conservatives who see this as a skirmish in a new culture war. It's being played that way because it's politically expedient to do so in 2012, an election year.
The backlash is an effort to limit a women's right to have access to health care, including the right to make decisions about reproduction. If that reminds you of the abortion issue, you're not alone. That was the old cause. This is the new one. Access to contraception is the next target for religious conservatives bent on their version of morality trumping individual rights.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201202101230--tms--msanchezctnms-a20120210feb10,0,6147355.column
Tribune Media Services
February 10, 2012
On Friday, the administration announced it would alter the policy to require insurance companies to provide free birth control in cases where religiously affiliated employers refused because of conscience. That may placate some religious conservatives, but don't count on it.
Despite the heated rhetoric, the controversy is not about religious conscience; it's about politics.
<...>
The truth is, the desire to control, to assert one person's view of morality over another's choices, is coming from the other direction -- from religious conservatives who see this as a skirmish in a new culture war. It's being played that way because it's politically expedient to do so in 2012, an election year.
The backlash is an effort to limit a women's right to have access to health care, including the right to make decisions about reproduction. If that reminds you of the abortion issue, you're not alone. That was the old cause. This is the new one. Access to contraception is the next target for religious conservatives bent on their version of morality trumping individual rights.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201202101230--tms--msanchezctnms-a20120210feb10,0,6147355.column
