Catholic Bishops Coming For Your Birth Control (for real) [View All]

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http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/09/21/roundup-catholic-bishops-coming-your-birth-control


The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is once more trying to flex its muscles. Not happy to have simply pushed to remove all abortion coverage from health care reform, they now have a new target: making sure birth control isn't covered, either.

Via BusinessInsurance.com:

An organization representing U.S. Catholic bishops is asking federal regulators not to classify contraceptives and sterilization as preventive services, thus entitling them to full coverage under the health care reform law, in final rules.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, in a letter sent Friday to the Department of Health and Human Services, said that preventing pregnancy is not preventing a disease.

-long snip of why the men want this-

Can the Conference of Bishops once more outmaneuver and strong arm politicians into abandoning any promises to help women through health care reform? It looks like we'll have another showdown to watch.

Mini Roundup: In a very public and morbid reminder of the fragile state of maternal mortality, Times Square's National Debt Clock has a new counterpart. Introducing the Maternal Death Clock, which will run for three days, marking the number of women who die every day due to childbirth and complications.
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are we really going to let these religiously insane men do this to us???