Becket Replies to MSW | National Catholic Reporter

Becket Replies to MSW | National Catholic Reporter by MSW and Becket.  MGB: Becket and its clients - as well as all similar clients - act as if there is something new about preventative insurance policies providing contraception regardless of the wishes of the employer.  There is not.  It has been happening since December 2000. They also act as if the government is forcing them to do something wrong.  That is only true to the extent that the Institute of Medicine believes such care is essential to women.  To suggest this is some feminist liberal agenda is to impugne the integrity of the Institute.  It is the Bishops playing politics with this issue - Republican politics.  It is time for this to stop.  Indeed, there is nothing evil about such care - and I say that not from the POV of the government, which I am not part of, but of Catholics (and the workers employed by them) who say that the Church is wrong on this area of teaching.  Period.  The Church started with a perfectly honorable teaching that said that no one, especially not mental patients and prisoners, should be subjected to eugenic sterilization (taking away their choice to have children).  The current Church teaching is a sick preversion of the original doctrine which flies in the face of family reproductive health choices.  It is time for a hermaneutic of revolution on this matter.