Catholic physicians’ group doesn’t want contraception covered by – or mentioned in – Affordable Care Act

Keep Catholic and religious dogma out of our health care and sciences – and our right to make our own medical choices and decisions with our doctors and care givers. If you want as many baies as humanly possible, then don’t use contraception. If you want to exploit and prevent millions of poor women access to affordable care and choices, that’s on your soul.

Freekin morons!! This is why christians need to just keep to themselves. Birth control is a poor name for this medication. This pill enables women to properly regulate hormonal activity in their body. Not everyone that takes it to prevent births. Some women actualy take it to enable them to get pregnant. Some women need to take it to actualy function during pms. The benefits of these pills to women is massive. All christians want to do is destroy our quality of life.

The men (and I use the term advisedly) neeed to realize that, in a pluralistic, officially religion-neutral society such as our own, there will be things that, on occasion, go against minority religious beliefs. In other words, not everyone in the country is Catholic–cope!

PS Every Catholic woman I’ve dated has taken birth-control pills. It seems it’s not that difficult to convince your priest that one is doing it solely for menstural difficulties.

Four hundred years to recognize Galileo… need I say more.

Jeff Wilfahrt, Rosemount, MN

Jeff, unfortunately we don’t have the luxury of that kind of time. Also, how is it not a violation of your Constitutional rights when your doctor or pharmacist can impose their religious views upon you?

Who speaks for Catholicism? The Church and its institutions, or the majority of Catholics who use birth control and are pro-choice?

Anyone who believes the Christian delusion is a TOOL and not living in modern day reality. C’mon people WAKE UP and think for yourself beyond the religious GARBAGE and the FANATICS who vomit this rubbish about morality of right or wrong. Especially from an organization that harbors and protects its pedophile priests. These people are SEVERELY mentally dysfunctional. The world is over populated and eventually resources will diminish as the human (locusts) devour and consume and pollute the planet. THE HUMAN RACE NEEDS CONTRACEPTION AND ABORTION TO SURVIVE it’s mass population explosions. Read a National Geographic once a while… put the silly Bible fairytale book away.

Can you imagine the outcry and hysteria if Muslim clerics were demanding that the health care law include Islam-based care decisions that would apply to everyone??

Wishing and hoping that restricting access to birth control will somehow simultaneously end abortion, make every child a wanted child, restore the “traditional” family, get every woman back into the kitchen (barefoot and pregnant), make all children unquestioningly obey their parents, make all the gays suddenly and convincingly heterosexual, and bring back the days when we could be burned at the stake or thrown in jail for not being Christian or Muslim or whatever religion holds the political power is exactly that – wishing and hoping. And it’s just as likely to happen as just about every other form of magical thinking.

Fortunately for me and the rest of the realists, I’ve got data to support the idea that access to contraception not only promotes health worldwide, but it actually decreases abortion and also decreases maternal mortality. That’s right, folks. Fewer women die when everyone has access to reliable family planning. Although WOMEN’S LIVES mean very little when compared to a couple million sperm, an embyro or a fetus. Obviously.

Why is it that people who want catholics to recognize their right to make their medical choices want to discriminate against catholics. Making catholics pay for someone else’s birth control is not acceptable. Should the folks who can not afford the birth control want it, then some of you who want to pay for it should start your own group and do just that.

@Diane—thanks for the great posting.

1974: 83% of Catholics disagreed with the contraception ban.

1989: 44% of Catholic women used contraception.

1999: 80% of Catholics thought contraception was compatible with being a good Catholic.

2002: 97% of American Catholic women over 18 had used a banned form of contraception (same as the general public).

2005: 90% of Catholics supported the use of birth control.

http://myperiodblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/cath

Agreed, great post Diane

Yes Scott it’s all about the money. Really?

Scott, I’m sure Jews and Muslims don’t like the idea that the government helps subsidize pork production, or serve pork in military mess halls, or allow people to use food stamps to buy Spam. Is that discrimination against them, or is it only discrimination when your priest tells you it is?

HHHMMMM lets see birth contol pills verses thousands and 10′s of thousands of unwanted babies.

@Scott,
No brainer. You can pay for it now or pay for it later.

Different Scott here:).

Let’s keep in mind that even though the Catholic church doesn’t grasp it, birth control is part of health care. So as employers offering their employees health coverage, they need to follow the law. Sorry other Scott, but the church needs to understand that there are community standards to health care. Religious exemptions stop when it means that lives are balance.

Also with the world adding a net 9000 lives every hour, it’s time to stop adding new humans to the planet. So it’s time to drop bronze age opinions about sexuality and reproduction.

The Earth has 7+ BILLION people……..we dont need anymore then we have……..Glad Im 51yrs old…cause 30-40yrs from now – good luck getting Fresh Drinking Water, especially after the GOP deregulates everything – and EVERYTHING is Polluted (ground,air,water, and food) ……You can’t drink Money $$$ ….gettting a shower everyday WILL BE A luxury of the distant past………

“Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite iraaaaaate! ”

Sorry, but someone was going to bring that up sooner or later.

I don’t want doctors of “faith” making my decisions for me or my family.

I am for allowing those to make decisions based on what they seem they need to do.
Birth controls helps things like very uncomfortable “times of month”, and it has been a savior for those who use this method. It isn’t “just” for prevention of unwanted pregnancies. Although that is a proper thing to consider.

Dian and Paul V, YOU ROCK

Basically these Catholic doctors, insurers, and hospitals want everyone that work for them to abide by the Catholic faith’s rules on birth control, regardless of what those employees’ personal beliefs might be.

@ Scott the pro ban one that is.

As soon as the Catholic churches pay taxes you can have your argument how about that?

Religious laws can NOT and will NOT be American.

I do NOT want my tax dollar’s EVER EVER EVER EVER spent to cover anything a Catholic church does, but the Catholic church has Tax exemption, so I DO pay for Catholics to worship.

The Christian religion goes against every thing I stand for, but as an American I believe in Free speech, therefore I will continue to subsidize your house of worship.

Its against millions of peoples religions to not eat meat. Should we not subsidize any meat for the country? Should poor people not be able to buy meat with their food stamps? Should it be against the law to mention meat in any documentation that is government? In your thought process all schools should not serve any meat at all cause it goes against their religion and therefore all schools should stay neutral on all meat products ever!

The Problem with Christians like Scott is that they think their God, their Religion should be indoctrinated onto everyone. They do NOT understand that Religion is a choice, and a lifestyle, they do not get that movements like the Catholics trying to hush the word of contraception is a Radical Religious Agenda.

I do not support your lifestyle, although I accept it.

Hippocratic Oath

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug.

I will not be ashamed to say “I know not,” nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient’s recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.

This is a clear violation of this oath and condition to practice medicine.

I will suggest that the Catholic Church, its leadership, and each and every one of its members has a great deal of work to do cleaning its own house before ever, ever going around making moral pronouncements to anyone about anything.