Thursday, February 09, 2012

Much Ado About Not Much

...speaking of the contraceptive provision recently approved by Obama and company and the howls of outrage from Catholic, Inc. and other wounded rightists. Specifically, no one is making anybody take The Pill.

Whose Conscience? - NYTimes.com
...But suppose the counter-factual – that only half, or one-quarter, or five percent of Catholic women use birth control. The question would remain: Whose conscience is it? The regulation doesn’t require anyone to use birth control. It exempts any religious employer that primarily hires and serves its own faithful, the same exclusion offered by New York and California from the contraception mandate in state insurance laws...

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