Catholic Institutions Say WHAT?
I thought it ridiculous that Catholic dioceses, schools and organizations sued Obama over the mandate requiring most employers to include free birth control as part of their health insurance coverage.
I thought it ridiculous that Catholic dioceses, schools and organizations sued Obama over the mandate requiring most employers to include free birth control as part of their health insurance coverage.
HuffingtonPost.com | Max J. Rosenthal | Posted 04.26.2012
WASHINGTON -- Georgetown University's health insurance received national attention after Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke attempted to testify abou...
Joseph Rauch | Posted 04.11.2012
I do not think raising a child without religious values bears more merit than raising a child with religious values, but the development is certainly worth looking into.
Fred Rotondaro | Posted 04.10.2012
The bishops would of course never tell their parishioners to vote Republican, but they left little to the imagination. Priests would preach at mass about the necessity of voting only for pro-life candidates.
HuffingtonPost.com | Adam Goldberg | Posted 04.12.2012
The Huffington Post caught up on Thursday with former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour outside of New York's famed Loews Regency Hotel. In addition to d...
Lorraine Devon Wilke | Posted 05.15.2012
Interesting, isn't it, that this Church so intent on managing the sex lives of its adherents is run by men and women who are not allowed to have any?
HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.07.2012
Saying it would reduce health insurance costs, the Tea Party-controlled New Hampshire House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday afternoon to re...
Robert Walker | Posted 05.04.2012
If all we get out of the latest Limbaugh firestorm is that it is not appropriate to call women sluts, prostitutes, or any of the other pejoratives commonly heaped on women, then we are missing the larger point: women suffer when their reproductive health and rights are abridged.
Heather Buchanan | Posted 05.02.2012
If not birth control, what are the options? Do we wish to regress to the rhythm method? If men can't even remember their anniversaries, how are they supposed to keep their partner's monthly ovulation calendar in their mind?
Rabbi Arthur Waskow | Posted 04.28.2012
It is Roman Catholic "sharia" about contraception that the USCCB has been trying to impose on Americans of all faiths and beliefs who happen to work at a Catholic-sponsored hospital or university.
Maggie Kozel, M.D. | Posted 04.25.2012
How many more parties are we willing to invite into the therapeutic conversations we have with our health care professionals? If a CEO of a major company is an anti-vaccine activist, can she refuse to let her company's health plan cover routine immunizations for children, as a matter of conscience?
AP | GRANT SCHULTE | Posted 04.24.2012
LINCOLN, Neb. — Seven states asked a federal judge Thursday to block an Obama administration mandate that requires birth control coverage for em...
Jess Coleman | Posted 04.24.2012
Following the Catholic Church's declaration of war on contraception, the Republican-controlled House decided to delve deeper into the issue of women's health. Fair enough. But where were the women?
Posted 02.19.2012
Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Francis George, back in town after a visit to Rome, has doubled down on his contempt for the Obama administration's call f...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 02.16.2012
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) mocked former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on the House floor Thursday for his statements on abortio...
Clarence B. Jones | Posted 04.16.2012
Demonizing Obama and playing the politics of contrived morality is not responsive to the critical issues affecting our country in 2012.
Bennett L. Gershman | Posted 04.12.2012
When officials of the Catholic Church resort to claims of conscience, they are not referring to the conscience of the women who seek insurance coverage for birth control; they are referring to their own stricken conscience.
Madeline Walsh | Posted 04.11.2012
In my 15th year of Catholic education, I am very familiar with the Catholic Church's opposition to birth control despite the fact that 98 percent of Catholic women have used contraception. This underscores the huge gap between the views of the Church and practicing Catholics.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 02.09.2012
WASHINGTON -- Single, 18-year-old female, likes having control over her own body, looking for affordable birth control. That's Keely Monroe's summ...
Rev. Al Sharpton | Posted 04.10.2012
This is about the notion that some religiously affiliated hospitals and schools receive federal money and therefore cannot deny a woman a federal guarantee. This is real 'class warfare' and this time the victims are the most vulnerable -- women from lower-income neighborhoods.
Jen Psaki | Posted 04.09.2012
For full disclosure, I am a Catholic, I am a Democrat and I am a woman. I am also someone who if push came to shove can afford to pay over the counter for birth control. But the false outcry this week over the need to cover birth control has made me raving mad.
AP | By RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 04.04.2012
-- The Obama administration's decision requiring church-affiliated employers to cover birth control was bound to cause an uproar among Roman Catholic...
Michele Somerville | Posted 04.01.2012
Making contraception available prevents abortions.
Sen. Barbara Boxer | Posted 03.31.2012
I was stunned to read E.J. Dionne's column in the Washington Post today denouncing a decision that should instead be lauded, especially by those of us who care about religious freedom, women's health, and economic fairness.
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 10.01.2011
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration issued official guidelines Monday that will force nearly all health insurance plans to fully cover the cost of ...
Elaine Vilorio | Posted 05.24.2012