Reproductive Rights Redux

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Published on Friday, February 3, 2012 by Common Dreams
Reproductive Rights Redux

by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez


Americans hate to be told what to do–even when it’s in our own best interests.

Today’s brouhaha over the Obama Administration’s decision to require employers to provide insurance fully covering birth control is a case in point.

Catholic employers are protesting that “It’s not the issue of contraception, but religious freedom,” according to today’s Washington Post, which quoted one Sister Carol Keehan as saying: “It’s 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.”

Let’s 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

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