The federal government is considering a recommendation that would require health insurance companies to fully cover birth control for women.
The Department of Health and Human Services is reviewing the Institute of Medicine's report that recommends eight preventive services for women, one of which is free contraception. (See earlier story) Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America (CWA) tells OneNewsNow the government should not force this stipulation on insurance companies because pregnancy is a healthy condition.
"You use medicine to prevent disease -- not to end a pregnancy or to prevent a pregnancy," she points out. "They are encroaching on our conscience rights as individuals, and I think it's very reprehensible. If people want to buy birth-control pills, that's their choice to do that; but they should not ask the rest of us to fund that for them."
Crouse further believes this is another example of how today's culture devalues life.
"It's another way of saying we have to do something to keep women from having babies; we have to do something for the government to have control over even the most private areas of our lives," she contends.
And the CWA senior fellow points out the irony in the fact that "all of those people who yell and scream about government staying out of people's bedrooms are the very ones who are saying, 'Oh, we've got to provide everybody with birth-control pills.'"
Crouse is also concerned that controversial, dangerous, and abortion-causing contraceptives are part of this provision.
The Department of Health and Human Services is reviewing the Institute of Medicine's report that recommends eight preventive services for women, one of which is free contraception. (See earlier story) Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America (CWA) tells OneNewsNow the government should not force this stipulation on insurance companies because pregnancy is a healthy condition.
"You use medicine to prevent disease -- not to end a pregnancy or to prevent a pregnancy," she points out. "They are encroaching on our conscience rights as individuals, and I think it's very reprehensible. If people want to buy birth-control pills, that's their choice to do that; but they should not ask the rest of us to fund that for them."
Crouse further believes this is another example of how today's culture devalues life.
"It's another way of saying we have to do something to keep women from having babies; we have to do something for the government to have control over even the most private areas of our lives," she contends.
And the CWA senior fellow points out the irony in the fact that "all of those people who yell and scream about government staying out of people's bedrooms are the very ones who are saying, 'Oh, we've got to provide everybody with birth-control pills.'"
Crouse is also concerned that controversial, dangerous, and abortion-causing contraceptives are part of this provision.
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Source: OneNewsNow
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