HHS’s birth-control rules intrude on Catholic values

Catholic University President John Garvey wrote in The Washington Post that new federal regulations requiring employers to provide no-cost prescription birth control as part of their health insurance plans infringe on their religious liberty. “If we comply,” he writes, “we will be helping our students do things that we teach them, in our classes and in our sacraments, are sinful — sometimes gravely so.”  Many states as well as federal civil rights law require most religious employers to cover prescription contraceptives if they provide coverage of other prescription drugs, however, and a number of Catholic hospitals and universities currently offer contraceptive coverage as part of their health insurance packages.  It will be interesting to see how this all pans out.

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