We're Debating Contraception...are you kidding me? Welcome to the Dark Ages.

Do you believe this? We debated this in the 60's for crying out loud. Now a religious organization can infringe on my right to access the health care services I want. Sure I can go somewhere else and buy the treatment, if I can afford it, but that infringes on my right to obtain services available to everyone else free of religion and without the added cost.

The incredible has happened. Under the deceptive guise of religious freedom, we would be able to completely dismantled health care for all in this country?

And if our now radical and disingenuous Republican politicians who have jumped on this bandwagon got their way, medical care in this country would be based on the whims and prejudices of the provider.

Bullying Bishops, feeling emboldened by issue avoiding GOP presidential candidates, want their doctrine to influence government policy.

Politico: The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said the administration’s plan still includes a “nationwide mandate of insurance coverage of sterilization and contraception, including some abortifacients.”

“It would still mandate that all insurers must include coverage for the objectionable services in all the policies they would write,” the bishops said.

Health care in America will be nothing more than emergency room visits, charity from religious organizations, school car washes and touch football fund raisers. Are we mad?

Just wait till stem cell research cures everything, but is deemed religiously off limits by some arbitrary edict of the church, like contraception?

Here's the debate in a nutshell, featuring right winger Laura Ingraham and guest Rev. Katherine Ragsdale, who absolutely dismantles the idiocy of this debate:



Why couldn't health care include all medical services and treatments in general, and every individual had a First Amendment right to refuse any given care based on religion or a bet they lost at work?

I thought this analysis was spot on;

Salon: It is Santorum, not President Obama, who is waging a war against religion.  It is the fear-mongers who endanger religious freedom.  Why should the Catholic Church impose its doctrines on employees who are not Catholic?  Why should any who are not Catholic be deprived of access to a health insurance benefit solely because they are employed by a Catholic hospital or university?  Why should the Church be permitted to impose its doctrines on an individual who not a member?  The First Amendment does not grant any church the power to deprive individuals of rights.

Santorum is waging a war not only on religion but on all Americans who do not share his faith.  The Catholic Church has every right to impart its doctrines; its members can accept or reject them.