Saturday, February 18, 2012

The Catholic Church and Obama Administration

We have heard that the Catholic Church is denying women the right to access contraception by not allowing it on their insurance policies. Where in the U.S. Constitution is it written that this is a right when people do have access to contraception through their doctors writing them prescriptions. The Catholic Church is not denying anyone access. It is just that they will not go against their religious teachings and conscience by paying for this in insurance policies. Next, we hear that 98% of Catholic women already use contraception. Well, to paraphrase the words of Nancy Pelosi, "you must quote the survey before reading it". If one was to read this so called survey you will see that the survey only included females between ages 15 to 44. Now this would eliminate people who are not too old to have sex. This survey also excluded those who were pregnant, who obviously were not using contraception, those who were following the teaching of the Church, those who were trying to get pregnant to start a family, those who were having sex without any regard whether they do or do not get pregnant and it appears that 2 in 5 of those females surveyed were Catholic in name only and did not regularly attend church or follow Church teachings. So, when anyone claims 98% on any survey, this should send up a red flag and requires a better review of the survey facts By the way, the full survey can be found at: ttp://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/Religion-and-Contraceptive-Use.pdf

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