Local Parties Weigh In On President Obama's Birth Control Policy
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KREX News Room
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Courtney Griffin
Story Created:
Feb 11, 2012 at 8:06 PM MDT
Story Updated:
Feb 13, 2012 at 5:08 PM MDT
Grand Junction - The President's proposal caused politicians in both parties to join the growing nationwide debate. Part of President Obama's health care reform law states all insurance plans to cover preventative care including birth control and the morning after pill at zero cost.
After a lot of ridicule from the Church to Congress, Obama freed religious sanctions and organizations from having to pay for birth control. Instead, Obama asked for insurance companies to take over that task.
GOP Chairman of Mesa County, Ruth Ehlers, said Obama's new disposition won't fix anything. The insurance companies will still need money to pay for that birth control cost, and Ehlers said that money comes from somewhere. "The employer has the right to decide what they're going to do and the government cannot tell any employer what they have to do or what they cannot do. It's totally against the constitution," added Ehlers.
Though Democrat co-chairman Karl Castleton said that all businesses should have this option, and he thinks that the employee should be able to chose the services they get, not their employer.
"St. Mary's is the biggest hospitals across the region here. It's a Catholic hospital, but I would say that most the people that work there are not Catholic. So, what if there's a simple difference between what you believe should or shouldn't be covered for religious reasons, and what the hospital believes," added Castleton.
President Obama's health care reform that includes the birth control plans to kick off in August.
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Floyd said on Tuesday, Feb 14 at 9:38 PM
Ignorance is bliss, when you open your mind, your brains fall out.
tater said on Monday, Feb 13 at 9:09 PM
So just force the employer to pay for the birth control for PEOPLE THAT ARE HERE ILLEGALLY AND COMMITTING A CRIME? That's really smart of you. By the way, Obama and Hitler do have many things in common. Stop playing your party politics and really think and investigate for a change. Do you not remember your factual history? Or was that your acid dropping class?
Ignorance is bliss said on Monday, Feb 13 at 9:35 AM
What do you people want to continue paying for the lack of birth control used, hence the illegal immigrants who have many babies due their religious non-belief in contraceptives? Go right ahead, I know I'm sick of paying for it. Oh and the remark of Obama and Hitler...Really, how ignorant are you people. God open your closed minded conservative eyes.
Floyd said on Sunday, Feb 12 at 3:59 PM
Obama and hitler have a lot in common.
guest said on Sunday, Feb 12 at 12:56 PM
i personally think there needs to be more doenabout people having kids that are not ready and to many with no jobs and getting pregnant just because they can get welfare to live on . BUT i dont think its up to the president to tell any one they have to
Founder of Planned Parenthood said on Sunday, Feb 12 at 7:18 AM
In Her Own Words : "The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923) On blacks, immigrants and indigents:"...human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born." Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people -On sterilization & racial purification: Sanger believed that, for the purpose of racial "purification," couples should be rewarded who chose sterilization. Birth Control in America, The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David Kennedy, p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech. -On the right of married couples to bear children:-Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, she wrote in her "Plan for Peace." Birth Control Review, April 1932- On the purpose of birth control: The purpose in promoting birth control was "to create a race of thoroughbreds," she wrote in the Bir
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