In Texas, Reactions to Birth Control Compromise Mixed
In Texas, reactions to a new federal rule requiring many employers — including religiously affiliated hospitals and universities — to provide contraception coverage in employee health plans were vehement, and mixed.
A compromise President Obama offered Friday that allows religious organizations, not just churches, to opt out of the contraception coverage requirement has yielded a similar response. The most controversial element? It requires third-party health insurers to provide birth control for women who elect not to join their employer’s health plan.
Seton Healthcare Family, a major nonprofit Texas hospital system that provides health care to 1.8 million people, and had ...
Comments (23)
Debbie Spencer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Yep. Can't have outsiders running up the costs. Our politicians can do it themselves.
Toby Marie Walker via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This isn't about birth control, it is about the first amendment and religious freedom.
Bill Eaves via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It's about obama running religion & the next step will be forcing Americans to Islam.
Julie Joffee Covey via Texas Tribune on Facebook
All the unwanted babies don't drive up costs, do they?
Joseph Meyer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Agreed that Obama overstepped. I only wish the U.S. Bishops had reacted as quickly in condemning the pedophiles among their own ranks instead of trying to cover it up. I don't think an appropriate act of contrition with due humility was ever spoken. It seems to me they still perceive themselves as the victims of the whole sordid mess.
Doloras Compton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
unwanted babies?? God wants them, that's why they were created! Maybe you or I were "unwanted" we will never really know but we were given a chance to live, life is precious, even "unwanted" life!
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Where was the outrage when the pope was against the war and Bush invaded Iraq? Oh-- Bush was a Republikkkan.
This is about "the church" controlling women. The religious freedom aspect is a false one; based on a false premise. A HUGE majority of women that are Catholic use birth control pills and NOT just for contraception. What does the pope and other men know about women's health issues? This is something just to attack the President about. Please save your false outrage for real matters of life and death.
Ken Shanaberger via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Gillman, unfortunately the current system requires you to pay for the cost of others' breakfast if they don't want to pay for it.
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
When the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office ("health reform will save money") and the Texas Association of Business disagree....it's not even close. CBO is right.
Doloras Compton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The morning after pill is not a "womens health" issue!
Clint Shepherd via Texas Tribune on Facebook
No, Ken. The "current system" makes the United States the one and only country in the world where healthcare is a money-making venture.
Mary Westemeier via Texas Tribune on Facebook
No. It is not about Obama controlling religion, it's about ENFORCING the U.S. Constitution. Obama did not tell any religion to change their beliefs about birth control (although the Catholic church shows deep hypocrisy by paying for vasectomies-a form of birth control- but not women's contraceptives). Just simply that if they choose to take Federal Funds (from 'We the People...including ALL Americans non-Catholic,Jewish, Muslim, etc.) thru medicare, medicaid, federal grants, etc., then they MUST abide by constitutional rules that ALL of their employees are created equal.
Brenda Roberts
Not every women can afford to have a passel of kids and be a brood mare like some of the politicians
wife's.we would have to have food stamps to feed them and the GOP would call us free loaders.
gypsy314 ne
True colors showing up clearly from Obama and democrats. All Americans better ask them self do they want leader ship from Obama and democrats. Reid has stop every bill from congress so the dictator Obama and his democrats can say congress does not do anything. Well Americans are not deaf nor blind and certainly not dumb.
2012 will clean most democrats from there office seats and Obama will go down in flames. Americans will be awake and do what they must to send Obama and democrats home. Then the republicans will have one shot to do what needs to be done secure our borders , repeal the gay crap from the military and fix the tax system and repeal Obamacare this is a lot and it will take all three house to make it happen.
The new president must be for the people all the people.
Samdavis
Gypsy, will you finish 3rd grade before you write any more posts? It's embarrassing that you can't express your half-baked thoughts using simple words and grammar. While this may be acceptable among the uneducated, poor white GOP people you clearly favor, it's just painful to have to read such ignorant posts.
Claudia D Stravato
It is clear the all-male hierarchy of the Catholic Church isn't going to accept any compromise. They want birth control for ALL denied! Unfortunately,
their inconsistency demonstrates their sexism. Why aren't they as outraged over insurance plans that cover vasectomies?
Elizabeth Hart via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Please Please Please I can only hope this leads to special dispensation for Muslims so they can practice Sharia and call it religious freedom. Then we'll see how supportive the religious right are.
Sam Davis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The Mormon Church tried the same argument for polygamy in the late 1800s. It didn't fly then because the weren't powerful like the Catholic church. Let's hope the bishops get treated like the useless trash they are.
Samdavis
The Mormon Church tried the same argument for polygamy in the late 1800s. It didn't fly then because the weren't powerful like the Catholic church. Let's hope the bishops get treated like the useless trash they are.
Anya Khan
This WAS all about President Obama's attack on Catholicism, and thinking with birth control and abortion his administration could get away with it. He failed this time, but it could be you religion next
Max Sped
The government is simply requiring The Catholic Church to treat employees as other employers do.
That is bad?
The fact the Catholics have been previously given a free ride does not mean that free ride was good or should continue. The requirement to pay for BC Medicine does not directly infringe upon the belief of any Catholic or any other religious affiliation – no Catholic is being required to take Birth Control Medicine.
It is a question of Women’s Health NOT Religious Belief.
Dale Curry
I love it! The Texas Association of Business is opposed?? Really? This Republican dominated group has little to do with business and more to do with supporting highly partisan republican politicians. Remember, this is the group that was highly involved with DeLay's money laundering and redistricting/disenfranchisement scheme. The GOP in 2012: keeping millions out of work just o put one man out of a job....
Dale Curry
@ Bill Eaves - The Islam lie again? That like birtherism is just another form of bigotry. Thanks for sharing.