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Talking Points on ObamaCare
This is a series of short talking points that the Couple to Couple League (CCL) has provided to their volunteers as information to be used in speaking out in various ways against the ObamaCare mandate on contraception. Feel free to use, build on, or share.
HHS Talking Point #10 – Viagra’s OK but not birth control??
Posted on March 14, 2012 by ccli
Why is the Catholic Church fine with providing coverage for Viagra for men, but not contraceptives for women? Doesn’t this prove they are just a bunch of men who disrespect women?
Most of the time when you hear this argument on radio talk shows or in letters to the editor, the caller or writer doesn’t actually care to know what the Church’s reasoning is; they just want to use this truth as a way to bash the Church.
But the Church always has reasons for their teachings, and in this case the truth is that the primary purpose of Viagra is to fix a health problem so that a husband can engage in sexual intimacy with his wife. It helps facilitate normal marital relations. The primary purpose of contraception is to cause a health problem, such that the reproductive system dysfunctions and prevents a woman from contracting the newly defined disease of pregnancy. The Church’s goal is to support and protect marital relations as God intended them to be.
The real irony of the complaints that label the Church’s non-support of birth control as anti-woman is that hormone-emitting methods of birth control (e.g., injectables like Depo-Provera and non-injectables like the Pill, patch, etc.) often cause a decrease in a woman’s libido! Seriously, how pro-woman is that?!
HHS Talking Point #9 – Hard Cases
Posted on March 9, 2012 by ccli
I have a life-threatening reason to not get pregnant. Why in the world would the Church be against helping me and my husband with birth control? I guess they don’t really care if my life is threatened by an unplanned pregnancy.
When properly practiced, NFP works. Continue reading
Stand up, speak out, be heard
by Gerri Laird
from Family Foundation, a publication of The Couple to Couple League, May/June 2012, pp. 12-13
Most of us have heard our bishops speak out against the HHS mandate on contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs, but did you know it elicited a response from Pope Benedict XVI as well?
…Consider these talking points for those times when you will have the opportunity to speak up, even if it’s just with a friend or neighbor. Read rest of article
http://cabrinihealth.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/standupspeakout-ff2012-05061.pdf
The Line in the Sand: Religious liberty and health care
by Bob Laird
From Family Foundation a publication of The Couple to Couple League, May/June 2012, pp. 8-11.
The Obama Administration has drawn a line in the sand, daring Catholics to practice their faith in the public square. There is little precedence for this attack on religious liberty. Previous Congresses and administrations always upheld the First Amendment non-interference of the government in the free practice of religion….
In a Feb. 16 press conference, Anthony Picarello, Associate General Secretary of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) delineated:
“We are not entering a new stage. It has gone from that which is allowed by the government, to that which is supported by the government, to that which is mandated by the government. The latter step is what makes it a religious liberty issue.”
Understanding Catholic Voting Priorities
The U.S. Catholic Bishops have explicitly stated that politicans who oppose the Catholic teaching on abortion do not deserve the vote of Catholics in an election, regardless of their views on any other issue. This conclusion is derived from their document dealing with the principles of voting, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship.” It is worth noting a report from The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS), that Bishop George Murry, S.J., of Youngstown, Ohio, carried out this policy by asking Mercy College to Continue reading
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The Hijacking of Natural Law
by Gerri Laird
Taken from Family Foundations Plus, Couple to Couple League, April 2012
A Buddhist monk, a female Rabbi, a female Islamic chaplain, and a Catholic laywoman sat side by side answering questions on the topic of sex and religion.
When a question arose about faith, reason, and the natural law, the monk jumped to the microphone first and said that sex is natural, so anything goes! Next, the Rabbi took the microphone and responded that religion has to adapt to society. Thus, sexual behaviors that were once considered immoral are now natural and permitted. The Islamic chaplain’s response was somewhat stricter than the previous two. When it was time for the Catholic laywoman to respond, she stopped and first insisted on defining natural law. Continue reading
Georgetown, Sandra Fluke, and Catch-22
After years of maintaining a position of self-selection with regard to obedience to Catholic teachings and Catholic educational principles, Georgetown University is now in a Catch-22 situation over Sandra Fluke. Joan Frawley Desmond highlighted this problem in the National Catholic Register, “Sandra Fluke and Georgetown’s Position of ‘Neutrality’.”
Desmond reported that after Fluke held a forum on the Georgetown campus in which she demanded that the “university reverse its policy of denying contraception in student health plans,” University President John DeGioia clarified the university’s policies on contraception in a letter to Georgetown law professor Gregg Bloche. According to Desmond, the DeGioia letter notes Continue reading
