Re: Catholic Charities and Birth Control

From: ainsron (ainsron@sbcglobal.net)
Tue Mar 2 18:46:29 2004


I think you are right. What I really don't understand is how other non religious employers can exclude birth control from their coverage. I have public school teachers whose insurance does not cover birth control pills. I haven't checked, but I'll bet their administrators can get their Viagra covered!

Ronald E. Ainsworth

-----Original Message----- From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of DoctorJoe@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 3:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L Subject: Re: Catholic Charities and Birth Control

In a message dated 3/2/04 17:22:32, ainsron@sbcglobal.net writes:

Justice Janice Rogers Brown dissented, writing that the Legislature's definition of a "religious employer" is too limiting if excludes faith-based nonprofit groups like Catholic Charities.

"Here we are dealing with an intentional, purposeful intrusion into a religious organization's expression of it religious tenets and sense of mission," Brown wrote. "The government is no accidentally or incidentally interfering with religious practice; it is doing so willfully by making a judgment about what is or is not a religion."

Sounds like a thread that will reach the U.S. S. Ct. in the near future. Whadyathink?

Joe P.





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