Why health care should include contraceptive coverage

I have to confess up front that as someone born in the 1960s and raised in a heterogeneous spiritual environment, I’m a little bemused that oral contraceptives are even a matter for national public debate. Moreover, the Roman Catholic Church remains the only Christian group that takes a dogmatic position against not just oral contraceptives, but all means of contraception including condoms. Not even the Orthodox Church (arguably even more ancient than the Roman Catholic Church as it includes the patriarchies of Jerusalem and Antioch) takes a similar position against contraception.

Read the rest at EE’s blog where I’m guest posting today.