Re: Why the Catholic hospitals don't have to sell rubbers

so legally the Catholic hospitals' doctors do not ((((have to))))
prescribe contraceptives but they have to sell, be available

how many people when they go to any pharmacy go to a hospital's pharmacy




On 6/2/12, Leader of 71 <lesjulia1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/02/02/the-truth-about-contraception-obamacare-and-the-church/
>
> Representatives of the Catholic Church believe that this requirement forces
>
> them to support a plan that is, inherently, against their religious
> beliefs.
>
> Maybe. But the result of the hue and cry has been to cause considerable
> misunderstanding as to what the requirements of this law are—and what they
> are not.
>
> So, let's set the record straight so we can at least understand what we may
>
> be arguing about.
>
> A recent blog by Celia Muñoz, Director of the White House Domestic
> Policy<http://www.forbes.com/policy/>Council,
> does an excellent job of laying out the facts –
>
> - For starters, *all* churches—or any other type of house of worship—
> are expressly exempted from the requirement that they offer health
> insurance to their employees that includes any provision for
> contraception.
> The issue under discussion involves whether *other* entities owned and
> operated by a church should be obligated to do so under the law.
> - Nobody is, in any way, obligated to acquire or use contraceptive
> devices. The regulation applies only to what insurance companies must
> offer-not to who must take advantage of the benefit. Thus, if your
> religious belief bars you from using contraception, then nothing will get
>
> in the way of you and your religious beliefs. You may have the benefit
> available to you in your insurance coverage, but nothing is going to
> require you to take advantage of the benefit.
> - The law does not require medical care providers to prescribe
> contraceptives. If the religious belief of a physician or other health
> care
> worker is such that they do not believe in contraception for religious
> reasons, nothing in the law –or the regulations-would require a doctor or
>
> care worker to prescribe a contraceptive device.
> - Drugs, such as RU486 that cause a woman to abort a pregnancy, are *not*
> included
> in the law or regulations. Nothing would require a health insurance
> company
> to include this in their policy offerings and, certainly, nothing would
> require anyone to take such a pill.
> - It's not like this is something new as over 50 percent of Americans
> already live in states that require health insurance companies to provide
>
> contraception in their policy offerings. Further, states like California,
> New
> York <http://www.forbes.com/places/ny/new-york/> and North Carolina have
>
> the identical religious exemptions as have been promulgated by the
> Department of Health <http://www.forbes.com/health/> & Human Services
> while some states (Wisconsin, Colorado and Georgia) provide no religious
>
> exemption whatsoever. Thus, one wonders why religious organizations in
> these states have not previously raised a fuss.
>
>
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