Lets Keep Climbing on this Limb | National Catholic Reporter

Lets Keep Climbing on this Limb | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: The Church is going to lose in Court for the simple reason that insurance has been requiring contraceptive coverage (including to those mistakenly called abortificients) on all preventative policies since December 2008 in a decision by the EEOC.  All previous challenges on similar laws have lost.  One would hope that one of the lawyers for respondents or their amici point out the the Affordable Care Act has turned health insurance, more than ever before, into a governmental program.  As such, employers as agents of the government must honor the privacy rights of employees to contraception - else we would essentially be voiding the right to privacy for everyone.  An exception is made for non-therapeutic abortion - but other than that dropping privacy would be a bad thing for Americans - no matter how much the Church wishes to insert its power into the life of the state.  I am sure this is why the Church is working so hard on this - but frankly, I wish they would not and hope they lose (and quit using my Lenten Appeal money to go down this road).