President Barack Obama has announced that contraceptive services for women who work for religiously based employers, such as universities and hospitals, will not have to be paid by the religious group as part of their health care plan, but instead will be a requirement for insurance companies to cover without charge.
This takes away the issue of religious liberty, which has been promoted incessantly by supporters of the Catholic Church and other religious groups, and exploited by the Republican Party and its Presidential candidates. Our belief in freedom of religion made it necessary for the administration to reconsider its handling of this part of the Obama Health Care legislation, which itself will be considered as to its constitutionality in the next few months by the US Supreme Court.
One can be assured, however, that politics will be utilized, and that this controversy will not disappear from the Presidential campaign, but it seems a win for women’s rights, as well as religious liberty!
Hello Professor,
Well here seems to be the compromise answer with the insurance industry stepping up to the needs of their female customers. I have stated, “Insurance companies would rather pay for the cheap pills themselves than the enormous cost of hospitalization, the work time lost, and economic burden of actually having an unplanned child birth…..which would also end up on the family’s health care insurance plan.â€
My recourse in the future will be to mention this incidence when any of these religious related charities asks me for a contribution to their cause. I will just tell them that all of my charity money went to Planned Parenthood and there is none left because they (the religious based institutions) could not properly cover medically their own female employees
You see, I have a choice too.