“Accommodation” for Religious Institutions on Contraception

President Obama and his administration has been deliberating about a bill that would force all employers to offer free contracetion and other preventive services to their employees. The Catholic Church has been very active in preventing this, while Planned Parenthood, the biggest supporters of abortion, have been pushing for this bill that forces employers to offer free birthcontrol to their employees.

Current United States President, Barack Obama, announced Friday that his administration will not require Religious institutions like hospitals & universities to provide free contraception to their employees in their health insurance. ”Whether you’re a teacher or a small businesswoman or a nurse or a janitor, no woman’s ’s health should depend on who she is, or where she works, or how much money she makes,” Obama said, claiming free contraceptive care is a “core principle” of his health care law, ObamaCare, which requires that all preventive services to be provided at no cost to patients.

The Obama Administration states that by offering free preventive services like this that the sheer amount of pregnancies will be reduced thus costing insurance companies less in the long run. Though this statement might be true there are several things to be considered before you decided whether this was a wise choice or not. 

First, there will be an immediate cost of offering a ‘free’ service to people. How much will this bill cost insurance companies?  The Guttmacher Institute reports that they estimate the cost to be about $21 per patient to add contraception to a plan for a year. Even if the costs are offset by a reduction in pregnancies as the Obama administration suggests, the up-front cost to insurance companies would be considerable. Thus this bill will further harm your pocket book, just slightly though. 

There is one more very important thing to consider about this bill though. As a ‘religious’ individual I am expected to oppose this bill just like the Catholic Church, however that is not the case. I support this decision personally. Why? Why would a Christian youth pastor and student of a Bible College support a bill that the catholic Church directly opposes?  The answer is simple. There will indeed be a reduction in pregnancies. This in itself isn’t neccessarily a good thing, but if there is a reduction in pregnacies then there will also be a reduction in abortions. Thus a reduction in mothers choosing to murder their children. You see, the logic is really rather simple here. The women who want to use the preventive care are most likely the same women who would choose to reject their pregnancy, thus mudering their baby. So an increase in payment of $21 per person to slowdown the murder of millions of babies in most certainly a good thing in my opinion. More than that, ‘religious’ individuals like myself have essentially indirectly won a battle when it comes to the issue of abortion, & the prochoice murderers think that they’ve won this one by allowing free preventive care. 

So in conclusion was this ‘accomodation’ a good thing? When it comes to our econmic situation it wasn’t the best decision. However when it comes to slowing down the rate that we conciously choose as a country to murder millions of children at, this was a very good move. I know that slowing down the rate of abortion wasn’t the reason for this decision, but it is however a direct consiquence of it. So I ask you was this a good decision by the Obama Administration?