Contraception

Forcing Catholic employers to pay for contraception for employees either directly (original plan) or indirectly ("compromise" plan) is pure politics. Between this decision and XL pipeline, Obama is on full bore campaign mode. It is one thing that he does really, really well, so I don't blame him.

Of course, this becomes a "turtles all the way down" question. Lefties can say that no, secular institutions (hospitals for example) run by religious institutions should not be exempt from national policy. Righties say, but they help the poor (which they do)! Lefties say they get money, so yes it doesn't matter they help the poor. Righties threaten that the institutions could close their doors or only stay open for their own "kind" (in this case Catholics) and that without the money that the secular institutions (or probably Jewish in the Northeast) get from the government they can't compete. I wonder, I don't know the answer, how many secular hospitals, etc. there are. Ok a quick look seems to imply about 85% of hospitals in America are not part of a religious network. So, maybe it wouldn't be horrible if the religious hospitals went out of business. Although, like schools would we have more or better hospitals, if government hadn't taken such a large percent of hospitals? Who knows.

They really should have never accepted government money in the first place, I guess. But, I doubt they really could have avoided government involvement, either through regulation or money competition.