Reproductive Rights Redux
Published on Friday, February 3, 2012 by
Common Dreams
Reproductive Rights Redux
by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
Americans hate to be told what to doeven when its in our own best interests.
Todays brouhaha over the Obama Administrations decision to require employers to provide insurance fully covering birth control is a case in point.
Catholic employers are protesting that Its not the issue of contraception, but religious freedom, according to todays Washington Post, which quoted one Sister Carol Keehan as saying: Its not about preventing women from buying anything themselves, but telling the church what it has to buy, and the potential for that to go further.
Lets remember that no one is making women go out and buy contraception. The ruling is simply intended to make contraception, including the morning-after pill, available to all employees free of charge through normal employer health coverage. ...........(more)
The complete piece is at:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/03-2