The answer to this silly birth control issue is so simple that I really need only one paragraph to solve it. To require every employer who offers group insurance to its employees to include coverage for contraception in no way infringes on any person's religious freedom. Nobody is required to use birth control. Each woman can still follow her own conscience and not use contraception. Simple as that. That should be enough, but I know you won't be satisfied.
Monty, I hear you saying, if I believe that contraception is a sin, I shouldn't be forced to pay for anyone else's pills!
Well, there are a number of answers to that one.
First, the essence of group medical coverage is sharing the risk of others. There are many, many benefits of your policy that you will never use. Lucky you, but you still pay the same premium as anybody else.
And, frankly, the women who use birth control are doing you a favor by keeping costs down. Every woman who uses birth control is saving you from sharing the cost of her giving birth to as many babies she might have had otherwise. That's a lot of savings right there.
Finally, if the principle of not wanting to help women sin is so important to you, then you surely will be willing to go as far as going uninsured.
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