HHS move amounts to 'to hell with you,' bishop says as protests mount

HHS move amounts to 'to hell with you,' bishop says as protests mount by Nancy Frazier O'Brien of the Catholic News Service (an arm of the USCCB)

Spare us the historionics. Health insurance benefits are earned, not a matter of largesse. They belong to the employees, not the employer, and the impact of covering birth control on the cost of the insurance is minimal.

The contention that birth control destroys a human life is far fetched and not in line with the natural sciences, which indicate that the energy that ends at death and protects against entropy throughout life by guiding development, does not and cannot start until gastrulation, which occurs after implantation. Preventing implantation does not, therefore, end life, merely potential life. As for the impact on birth control on sexual relations, the sexual relations of employees are plainly none of the bishop's business.

The only leg the bishops have to stand on in resisting birth control is in affirming that birth control should not be necessary in society because workers should be paid a just and living wage with the birth of each child, however that matter has nothing to do with health insurance coverage but the mortally sinful payment policies of the Catholic Church.