Dolan and his band of bishops know better than to leave this issue to a church laity that doesn’t even agree with them. Statistics shows that 98 percent of Catholic women will use an artificial form of birth control at some point in their lives, and a recent poll showed that 63 percent of Americans – including a majority of Catholics and evangelicals -- agree that insurers should offer birth control to those employees who want it.
One of the great ironies about this entire debate has been that the bishops are attempting to impose a policy on all Americans that they haven’t even been able to persuade their own members to adopt. They have gone so far as to back a bill that would allow any private employer in this country to refuse to pay for any religious practice that offends his or her personal beliefs. If adopted, this policy would subject the health care of millions of workers to whatever theology the boss in the corner office or some nameless CEO happened to adopt.
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