Religious Leaders Thank Obama For Pro-Choice Birth Control Decision

[Grassy Knoll]

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A group of religious organizations Monday thanked President Obama for his administration's recent decision on contraception, hoping to bring attention to religious pro-choice voices and to show that not all people of faith disagree with the new law.

Seven religious leaders from the Jewish, Unitarian, Baptist and other faiths addressed a letter to Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. All are members of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, a which includes more than 40 denominations and faith groups to promote education and issues of reproductive choice

"We believe that all women deserve access to affordable birth control, regardless of their employer, and we hope that, in the future, HHS will expand the same preventive coverage to women across the board," they wrote in the letter, obtained by The Huffington Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/obama-birth-control-religious_n_1242680.html

[iamthebandfanman]

1. i cant for the life of me

see what the catholic church is so angry about.

it doesnt FORCE people to take birth control, just gives them an option.

if people want to go against what their church leaders call their faith and take it, thats on them.

[Kalidurga]

2. When I saw all the angry Catholics on the news tonight...

I tried really hard to see their side of it, but I came up with nothing. The law doesn't force anyone to go on birth control. It does mean a portion of what they pay goes for birth control for others. But, then we all end up paying for a lot of stuff we don't want. like nuclear weapons, but you don't see me whining about how unfair that is, well not yet anyway.

[Fearless]

3. Well they're all about not letting people have choices...

So it's no wonder they don't like this. Plus they're used to getting their way historically... a bad combination.

[awoke_in_2003]

5. Monte Python summed the Catholic church up very well

with this skit:

[Lost-in-FL]

7. It is simple as to why they are so angry...

...more contraceptives, less children looking for shelter in their church. They looooooove children.

[patrice]

4. K&R! There's hope for them yet!

[Angry Dragon]

6. I guess those celibate catholic priests figure they don't need it

why should they let anyone else have it

[rapmanej]

8. Hitchens' has some good videos on this subject

heres one:

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Basically, the main argument is that the tried and true method of actually curing poverty is to empower women by giving them control over their own bodies.