Obama's Agreement on Birth Control
President Obama's agreement on birth control in his health care reform has caused an uproar in the Catholic community. He stated that birth control will be seen as a preventive measure and employer's insurance policies not businesses must provide free contraception to women. Obama them stated about 99% of women have used some sort of birth control in their lives. Insurance companies see this preventive care as a way to save money on pregnancy's and births associated with conception.
E.J. Dionne who is a liberal catholic states that the government did a good job regulating between government and religion. Stating that "President Obama did today what he should have done at the very beginning: He honored the fact that religious groups, including the Catholic Church, had legitimate religious liberty claims in the battle over a contraception mandate under the new health care law. And he did so while still holding to his commitment to expanding contraception coverage as broadly as possible (Link)."
Many conservative catholics are against this compromise expressing concern and conflict with teaching from the church. Conservative catholics are not happy with the "preventive care" expressing the importance of life and that the reform is interfering with church and state.
As a liberal catholic myself I agree with the compromise on birth control. Many many catholics disagree but I feel women do need the options. I see many catholics who have 5 or more children and I feel its two much for anyone to handle. In our society today those values of not taking contraception is over. More and more catholics are turning to birth control because of the economic impact a child has on the family and society. It is a women's choice to decide weather to take contraception or not.
E.J. Dionne who is a liberal catholic states that the government did a good job regulating between government and religion. Stating that "President Obama did today what he should have done at the very beginning: He honored the fact that religious groups, including the Catholic Church, had legitimate religious liberty claims in the battle over a contraception mandate under the new health care law. And he did so while still holding to his commitment to expanding contraception coverage as broadly as possible (Link)."
Many conservative catholics are against this compromise expressing concern and conflict with teaching from the church. Conservative catholics are not happy with the "preventive care" expressing the importance of life and that the reform is interfering with church and state.
As a liberal catholic myself I agree with the compromise on birth control. Many many catholics disagree but I feel women do need the options. I see many catholics who have 5 or more children and I feel its two much for anyone to handle. In our society today those values of not taking contraception is over. More and more catholics are turning to birth control because of the economic impact a child has on the family and society. It is a women's choice to decide weather to take contraception or not.
