Bishops decry Obama birth control plan, yet Catholic hospitals report sterilizations

Bishops decry Obama birth control plan, yet Catholic hospitals report sterilizations

U.S. Catholic bishops have vowed to fight the Obama administration's compromise on insurance coverage for contraception and sterilization, denouncing it as "coercive," "insulting," "unconstitutional," "belligerent," and "dangerous."

Yet there is evidence the sterilization services the bishops oppose have been provided by many Catholic hospitals across the country, including a few in the Philadelphia area.

Using standardized hospital discharge data, she found that between 2007 and 2009, more than 20,000 women who gave birth at Catholic hospitals in New Jersey and six other states then had their "tubes tied." Eighty-five hospitals - almost half of those providing obstetric services - were doing sterilizations to end fertility.

Among these were Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden and Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County in Willingboro, where Hapenney found that 282 women - 6 percent of those who gave birth - were sterilized in 2008 and 2009.

Catholic ecclesial and hospital authorities dismiss Hapenney's study as incorrect, although they won't discuss specifics.

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Comment:
Most people want something for nothing. This issue was very well played by Obama.
He made the Catholic Church and other churches come out and oppose something most women and many men want.
Look at the stats. Well north of 90% of women on are birth control at some point of their life. That includes Catholic and muslim women in the US. The cost is nominal really, but everyone loves something …
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Most people want something for nothing. This issue was very well played by Obama.

He made the Catholic Church and other churches come out and oppose something most women and many men want.

Look at the stats. Well north of 90% of women on are birth control at some point of their life. That includes Catholic and muslim women in the US. The cost is nominal really, but everyone loves something for “free”.

The Catholic church has not been very successful in fighting chemical contraception, or very active. This dust up has been a very big surprise to many women in and out of the Catholic church. They thought it was their RIGHT to have birth control, and someone else pay for it. Not to mention that when states like Illinois mandated a similar thing, there was not even a squeak out of the Bishops.

Obama managed to increase his share of the female vote, and made the Church look stupid. Most people will not look any deeper than that. Sad really. Beloc was right, people do not really want freedom, they want security. This is a perfect example of it.

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