02-07-2012, 06:52 PM
No, he did not blow it.
Let churches be in the church business.
Preach to women on Sunday mornings that you think birth control is evil. See if they follow you or not (Hint - most American Catholic women do not follow the church teaching on this. )
Let health insurers do their thing, as is the law of the land.
Nobody is forcing any Catholic woman to use any contraceptive product, she can follow her conscience like any other woman. An inconvenient truth for the Bishops.
Revisit the battle that Ireland went through regarding contraception, which did not become freely available and advertised until 1992, and was outlawed completely until 1980. And we're not that many decades removed from the days when only married women in the US could get birth control legally.
People who are defending the church on this should be careful what they wish for.
Let churches be in the church business.
Preach to women on Sunday mornings that you think birth control is evil. See if they follow you or not (Hint - most American Catholic women do not follow the church teaching on this. )
Let health insurers do their thing, as is the law of the land.
Nobody is forcing any Catholic woman to use any contraceptive product, she can follow her conscience like any other woman. An inconvenient truth for the Bishops.
Revisit the battle that Ireland went through regarding contraception, which did not become freely available and advertised until 1992, and was outlawed completely until 1980. And we're not that many decades removed from the days when only married women in the US could get birth control legally.
People who are defending the church on this should be careful what they wish for.