Americans Should Be Forced To Pay For Contraceptives

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Complete Coverage Imagine a women in her early 30’s, working her dream job as a nurse in a top hospital. She is married but has decided she wants to further her education and become a doctor. She and her husband have decided they want to wait to have children. Now imagine that same women being told she would have to pay upwards of $100 dollars a month to receive birth control pills. Fortunately that is the cheap route, if the nurse would like to have an intrauterine device (IUD) she would have to pay upwards of $300. President Obama has proposed a plan that would require all institutions, religious and non-religious, to have healthcare coverage that has options for contraceptives. Cardinal David Wuerl feels that “Catholic institutions will be forced to pay for policies that enable their employees to receive coverage of products and procedures that violate…show more content…
In contrast, Lisa Miller states “98 percent of Catholic women have used contraception in their lifetimes. To hold the consciences of a few loud voices over the private needs of families is not just unfair. It is unconscionable”. While in the article, Liberal Catholics challenge bishops on Obama’s contraception rule, James Salt of Catholics United states “The bishops blanket opposition appears to serve the interests of a political agenda, not the needs of the American people”. Some right wing Catholics do not believe they should be forced into offering a service not accepted religiously. Religion should not determine choices in the business world. Women should be given the right to choose when to have children. Employers, religious and non-religious, should bear no influence in that choice. The decision is a sole concern of the individual women
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