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It's complicated.
Most religious people generally are sane folks who don't meddle too much in people's personal affairs. But a fair share of them seek ways to limit women's access to abortion and birth control. There's arguments about the sanctity of life and not trying to act like God by controlling the number and timing of children (like the Duggars, from 19 and Counting or whatever number of kids they're up to now).
But often it's about controlling women and their bodies and their choices. With the recent provisions of the Affordable Care Act, insurance companies are required to cover contraception with no co-pays for the women whose health care they are covering. Even employers with a religious lean. Which some people are pretty upset about, because unfortunately self-righteousness means that religious people think they know what's best for everyone and want to extend their religion to EVERYBODY.
The law actually leaves quite a bit of space for religious freedom--of individuals, not of businesses since businesses are not people. If a woman does not want contraception to be covered by her insurance company or employer, she won't buy it or ask them to cover it. Boom. Done. Sounds like religious freedom to me.
Do you think that employers/insurance companies should have to cover birth control?
Much love,
The Sheriff
Good post. I agree. Here is an odd little factoid for all y'all.
ReplyDeleteJohn Rock was an OB/GYN who was also a devout Catholic. He was instrumental in developing oral contraceptives, and is the reason why birth control pills come in the nice little 28 day packs. His motivation was to make a women menstrual cycle more regular, so that the withdraw method of birth control ( which was approved by the Vatican) would be more reliable. For a time this actually worked, and Pope Pius XII actually approved the pill for a time to treat menstrual disorders. However, in 1968 the Catholic Church reversed its position and banned the pill. However, the 28 day cycle stuck, along with the notion that a women needed to have her period every month.
"God may be dead, but irony is still rock-rollingly alive."
Here is the link to the entire Gladwell article:
http://www.gladwell.com/2000/2000_03_10_a_rock.htm