Call For Sanity

Recently the Obama administration decided to deny Catholic institutions such as hospitals, clinics, etc. religious exemption from the requirement to provide free contraceptives to all employees, against the teachings of their faith. That was met with an outcry, so the president decided to change the rules to exempt those institutions but still require the insurance companies that they pay to provide health care (mandated by "Obamacare") to offer the contraceptives for free. In other words, it is a shell game, moving from requiring the employer to provide the contraceptives to requiring the employer's insurance company to provide the contraceptives as part of the policies that the employer funds. How is that an exception? The answer is that it is not. The political conservatives have cried out that this infringes on religious freedoms, while the political liberals have hailed the decision as a victory for women and ridiculed the conservatives as wanting to ban contracep...