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“What are we doing here?” asked Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, stepping outside his wheelhouse to ask about a rising storm involving the Obama administration and the Catholic Church. “What’s the point?”

It was the Fall of 2011 and Panetta had read about a proposed Obama administration rule that would require employers – excluding houses of worship but including religious organizations such as charities, hospitals, and schools – to offer health insurance that fully covered contraception.

Panetta — a Catholic, former U.S. Representative, and White House chief of staff — didn’t quite understand why the Obama administration would be stepping into this conflict.

ABC News

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Thanks, marcus.

It seems as if the President's own people are telling him he's an idiot.
Why agitate the Catholic vote over a symbolic non-issue?

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It's my understanding that this rule was already in place thanks to an earlier court ruling that said that if male-specific, sex-related drugs like Viagra were going to be covered, then gender-equality laws mandated that female-specific drugs also be covered. My understanding is that the new rule change dealt with the cost to the end-user of these drugs, not whether or not they were covered at all.

But I haven't been able to find a whole lot of discussion on that outside of obviously-biased sources. Anyone know anything about that?

-Dan.

ABC is biased?

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No, I meant that the only people discussing the point I raised (which I didn't see mentioned in the ABC article) are biased. I've only seen it on left-ish sites.

-Dan.

I think EVERY mainstream media is biased - ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, NBC, even CSPAN (particularly when taking phone calls from viewers/listeners). Follow the money and you will see where their bias lies (no pun intended). They all mislead, use facts and numbers to say something they don't say, and sometimes outright lie. And they completely ignore facts they don't want to see and don't want the public to see.

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This is also my understanding of how the whole thing got started. It pre-dated President Obama, and furthermore, I just learned on the Rachel Maddow Show the other day, that Republicans put the contraception insurance requirement in place in many of the 28 states that previously required it. I am going to try to dig up a link to that right now. But this is consistent with what President Obama has habitually done - adopted many of the ideas the GOP itself has created. The contraception insurance requirement is just the latest. (Some states, such as Iowa, even require CHURCHES to provide contraception coverage, and President Obama's plan exempts churches from the requirement). I don't understand why the GOP would make him wrong for their own ideas (the Affordable Healthcare Act is adopted from Romney's plan in Massachusetts).

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Oh what a foretaste of glory divine!

Here's the video!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/

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Oh what a foretaste of glory divine!

Oh, and hi Marcus! It's good to see you!

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Oh what a foretaste of glory divine!

The point seems rather clear.

Provide access to contraception.

Catholic parishoners are certainly free to choose whether they use contraception or not...

In the President's own words:

Good to see you too.

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What does he think -- that insurance companies will just eat those costs? Maybe in an alternate reality! Either the president really has no clue as to how businesses operate in the real world or he's being disingenuous. I wonder why he doesn't mention the fact that most "medical" birth control modalities are abortifacient? That makes the "contraception" mandate an abortion mandate. And nearly 99% of all women have used contraception? Really? According to the National Health Statistics Report (Number 36, March 3, 2011), only 86.8% of women aged 15-44 have ever been sexually active. And most women much over the age of 40 have stopped menstruating, so they would have no reason to use birth control. Sounds like fuzzy math to me. And how is it possible that more than half of all women between the ages of 18 and 34 have struggled to afford birth control? At least 13% of women in that age group have never had reason to use birth control. And according to the Guttmacher Institute, 26% of women rely on either male condoms or the man's vasectomy as their birth control method. That means, according to the president, that more than 80% of the remaining women have struggled to afford birth control even though birth control pills can be had for a mere $15 a month and other modalities are as cheap as $11 a month! The man can't add! No wonder we haven't had a balanced budget in this administration. Oh wait, we haven't had a budget of any kind. But at least Obama's health care plan will save us money. Oh sure it will.

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I forgot, the Guttmacher Institute says an additional 6.3% of women rely on the no-cost methods of withdrawal and periodic abstinence. Well, you get the idea.

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No, the insurance companies have been having an ongoing dialogue with the President on healthcare, and he already knows that they stand to save a LOT of money providing birth control services instead of pregnancy services. They have no problem providing this "coverage" for free, because it limits their exposure.

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Oh what a foretaste of glory divine!

Got to agree with Gideon here. Planned Parenthood used to give it out like candy for free.

A new milestone reported in today's NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/us/fo ... ml?_r=1&hp

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Behold, now is "THE ACCEPTABLE TIME,"
behold, now is "THE DAY OF SALVATION" --
The apostle Paul, NASB