The Catholic Church is not against birth control. It allows you to use ineffective birth control

[Fresh_Start]

for family planning purposes. How about being forced to use ineffective medicine instead of being allowed to use the most effective medicine for other purposes. Should you be forced to chew on chamomile if you have a heart condition instead of using an artificial drug?
What is you were only allowed to drink green tea for high blood pressure or use beet juice for liver failure?

Thats the completely ridiculous condition that the Church has created.
Hopefully the American people will eventually see through the BS.

[HockeyMom]

1. In that non-profit agency I worked in they put the female clients on contraceptives

No, not for birth control, but for their female problems which they couldn't understand and the staff had to deal with with. Try dealing with a 30 year old woman of low functioning mental ability with severe cramps, and heavy bleeding ripping off her pad and throwning it at staff and other clients (male). Same woman with PMS who couldnt understand throwing a table and chairs around the room. It was not pretty what they could and did do.

Yet, this same church could deny contraceptives to pre-teen girls with these same medical conditions, AND adult women? Oh, these same "women" might be raped, must have that rapist's baby even as a baby themselves, or as an adult women she might take advantage of her medical condition to prevent making babies, even with her HUSBAND?

Keep your DAMNED religion to YOURSELF.

[dkf]

2. Giving contraceptives to women because they might be raped is kind of sick.

That bothers me.

[CTyankee]

4. the alternative might bother me more, tho...

[dkf]

6. Why can't they put cameras and recorders in all the rooms with vulnerable women?

Acknowledging they could be raped without being much more preventive is wrong.

[TheMadMonk]

5. Patients in a coma? Those with sexual disorders, or housed alongside?

Like it or lump it, it happens. Providing at least that much protection should be a no brainer. Voluntary where possible, mandatory only where absolutely necessary.

[dkf]

7. That seems a recipe for disaster right there.

Leaving any type of access would seem stupid to me.

[JNathanK]

8. They could arm potential rape victims with this condom.

They could arm potential rape victims with these.

Its an anti-rape device, essentially a barbed female condom.

[niyad]

3. their insanity reminds me of a VERY old "joke":

question: what do you call catholics who use the rhythm method?

answer: parents

[Suich]

10. Yup!

Boy born 3/64, girl born 6/65!

Thankfully, ex-catholic, as of 7/65!

[Yo_Mama]

9. Nobody is being forced to do anything

The Catholic church can only convince (or not convince) its members that they should follow its teachings. All the available data shows that most American Catholics are not convinced.

The only debate going on is whether the Catholic church can be forced to pay for what it considers immoral, which is an entirely different affair.

[niyad]

11. in case you haven't been paying attention, the rcc is also trying to eliminate contraception, period