Bill O'Reilly apparently believes that every woman who can't afford birth control has "millions" of options available to them and that women's health care providers like Planned Parenthood are just handing out birth control pills for free to anyone left and right. Which in O'Reilly's opinion makes the Catholic Church's view on not providing coverage for birth control as part of their insurance coverage just fine.
O'REILLY: Look, Reverand, if a Catholic woman or woman who's not Catholic, let's say a women who's not Catholic is working in a Catholic hospital, okay. I've got a very fine Catholic hospital near me, St. Francois out of Manhattan, terrific hospital, and not everybody's Catholic in there... and they want their people...
HAFFNER: And not all their patients are Catholic.
O'REILLY: Right. And they want the mandate. They want birth control. And the Catholic Church says, you know what, this goes against our teaching so, we don't mind you do what you want on your time and there are a million clinics around that'll give it to you free, and you know that, there's clinics everywhere that do it, so what's the beef? They respect the religious tradition of their system. It's not like they're not going to get... they won't be able to get it Reverend!
I haven't used a Planned Parenthood clinic for my health care in quite a long time, but years ago they worked off of a sliding scale as to what they charged for some of their services, and they weren't free for everyone by any means. And they certainly would not have been free for someone who has a full time job and hopefully is making a living wage that O'Reilly's talking about here that work for the Catholic Church.
I'd love for O'Reilly to elaborate on who he's talking about here that supposedly give women who earn a decent wage or salary, and who aren't destitute, that are supposedly being handed "free" birth control pills and contraceptive services, but I don't expect to hear that explanation out of him any time soon.
And as I've elaborated in earlier posts that seems to be completely lost on Bill O'Reilly, preventing pregnancy is not the only reason for women to go on birth control pills. They have other health benefits as well. Sadly that wasn't pointed out to him during this interview.
Bring back human sacrifices!!
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..would just like to say a few words about the Catholic church:
First, how insane is it that vowed virgins are pimping themselves out to America as contraceptive experts?
Father Neverhadnone is the self-appointed guru on birth control?
It seems like to me it should be a prerequisite that you have actually participated in coitus before you are allowed an in-depth lecture about birth control.
Regardless, I'm not Catholic & really do not give a shit what any Catholic thinks about anything, much less birth control.
Just like I don't like teabaggers going about "educating" me on how I should feel about unions, I don't want to hear some Father Guido Sarducci knock-off "educating" me on birth control.
If we continue to travel this path, I guess it's only a matter of time before Scientologists become our experts on climate change & Rastafarians become self-appointed experts on single-payer healthcare.
When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in excess body fat & carrying a misspelled sign.
...has Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) and takes birth control pills even though she cannot have children (we adopted our daughter). The birth control pills help regulate her mentsrual cycle, and mitigate the effects of PCOS. Why should she not be allowed to have that covered by insurance if she happened to work for a religion-based institution like a university?
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