Obama’s ruling that private health plans must provide
preventive services like breast exams, HIV screening and contraception for free
was hailed as a policy that would help millions of women get the affordable
health care that they need has been turned into an attack on religious freedom
when in reality, it is an attack on women’s personal health care decisions and
should be compared to an attack by the forces of a U.S. Taliban.
The Wall Street Journal (Feb. 8) had a great article titled
WHY THE BIRTH-CONTROL MANDATE MAKES SENSE written by three U.S.
In the article, they state that the Institute of medicine as
well as other medical experts back the mandate as essential to the health of women
and families. Access to birth control is directly linked to declines in
maternal and infant mortality. It reduces the risk of ovarian cancer and
generally contributes to overall health of women.
1.5 million women use contraceptives only as treatment for
serious medical conditions and not to prevent pregnancy. I have seen this in
young women that had such painful periods they had to go on birth control pills
that eliminated the unbearable pain.
Also, reducing unintended pregnancies leads to fewer abortions
which we all should want as a goal.
99% of sexually active women have used birth control at some
point in their lives including 98% of Catholic women.
How is this an attack on religious freedom when banning the
mandate FORCES women to follow religious doctrine they do not believe in or
practice (catholic or not). What about their freedom?
Institutions that serve the public, receive government funds
and get special tax benefits MUST play by the rules other institutions play
by…period!
The senators end their article by stating that improved
access to birth control is a good health policy and a good economic policy. It
means healthier women, healthier children and healthier families and why is
that a bad thing…
The bulk of this attack against American women’s health is
spearheaded by American Catholic bishops (the U.S. Taliban) who obviously do
not give a shit about the health of their female parishioners and their
families.
Obama is already caving in for political reasons but a loud
and powerful shout-out by Catholic women against this deplorable attack on
their health by their own church leaders that have no clue as to what a family
is and how it functions, would at least tell them how insignificant and
inconsequential their pronouncements really are!
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