The following comes from a Sept. 27 story on SFGate.com.
Health insurance policies in California will have to cover all federally approved contraceptives for women by 2016 without charging co-payments under legislation signed this week by Gov. Jerry Brown, countering trends in other states and the U.S. Supreme Court.
The bill, SB1053 by Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, expands state laws that required coverage for most birth-control drugs and devices approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The new law mandates coverage for all FDA-approved contraception, prohibits co-payments and includes managed-care Medi-Cal plans, which are not expressly covered by current laws.
“No woman in California will any longer face the prospect of a health plan second-guessing or overruling the medical or family planning needs she and her health care adviser deem best for her,” Mitchell said in a statement Thursday after Brown signed the bill.
She said she hoped the law would be a model for other states looking to preserve contraceptive coverage in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in June that allowed private employers to deny coverage to female employees based on the employer’s religious objections to birth control.
The ruling was based on federal law, not the Constitution, and does not apply to states like California whose laws require insurance coverage for contraception. Current state laws and SB1053 allow churches and other religious institutions to withhold contraceptive coverage, but the exemption does not apply to other employers.
A number of states have responded to the ruling by seeking to limit access to contraceptives, while also enacting restrictions on abortion and abortion providers. California has some of the nation’s strongest abortion-rights laws.
Mitchell’s measure passed both houses on party-line votes. It was supported by reproductive-rights groups, labor unions and some physicians’ groups, but opposed by the insurance industry, which said it would increase costs and premiums. The California Catholic Conference also opposed the bill….
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This is the same politician that last year was discovered to be a Board Member of Verbum Dei High School and who taught a class on Social Justice at this Jesuit (of course) school. Maybe it takes being pro-choice, etc, to teach in a Catholic school?
Inclusiveness is so inclusive – except for the Hated Pigs of the Hetero-Patriarchy, who are a bit too beyond the pale for consideration.
However – Turkey Baster Creationists are now all the Rage in Catholic Girl’s Schools, which is called ‘formation’ by the twisted systerhoodl
SEE
Catholic nuns stress ‘inclusion’ as they review decision to fire pregnant lesbian teacher
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/catholic-nuns-stress-inclusion-as-they-review-decision-to-fire-pregnant-les
Only the devil himself could have convinced the modern masses that a woman’s fertility is a disease in need of “chemotherapy” to cure.
What a SAD day in what was once beautiful California!
Just think, too, what our children are exposed to when you have someone “teach” a class in your Catholic school.
* * * * * Now what are the CA Bishops going to do ?
– Were they silent prior to the passing of this bill ?
– Why did the Bishops not teach, correct and if necessary discipline Catholic politicians ?
CCC: ” 1903 Authority is exercised legitimately only when it seeks the common good of the group concerned and if it employs morally licit means to attain it.
If rulers were to enact unjust laws or take measures contrary to the moral order, such arrangements would not be binding in conscience.
In such a case, “authority breaks down completely and results in shameful abuse.”
CCC: ” 1759 An evil action cannot be justified by reference to a good intention” (cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, Dec. praec. 6).
The end does not justify the means. ”
CCC: “
Did the California Conference of Catholic Bishops put articles in each Parish bulletin so all practicing Catholics could contact their elected officials prior to passage?
Interestingly, it was passed on PARTY LINES – by the DEMOCRATIC PARTY of DEATH.
Nearly all the anti-life legislation in California is passed along party lines. Nothing new in that.
So why don’t Bishops and Priests teach us to VOTE according to our Faith ? (Against the Democratic Party of Death.)
Anything else is Schizophrenic.
Probably because many are Democrats themselves, as are the people he surrounds himself with. For example, one bishop has a pro-abort, pro-SSM Democratic politician’s campaign advisor on an advisory committee of his.
Why do you need someone to tell you how to vote?
Contact your Diocese Bishop and tell him “NO” to paying for the mortal sins of any employees (though insurance or otherwise).
This is remote participation when done voluntarily.
INTRINSIC EVILS are: Abortion, Euthanasia, Contraception, Same Sex Marriage, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, and Cloning.
Maddie – you cite a list of intrinsic evils that is simply made up. Too bad. It’s become a line for the Greek Chorus, but has not basis in binding Church teaching as such a list might suggest.
“Contact your Diocese Bishop…”. Maddie, I’ll bet my life savings you know very little about the bishops!
The California Catholic Conference of Bishops is suing the state over this issue.
No that is over abortion. But they might over this too.