What about church’s rights?
So in Ohio we’re having a brouhaha about hospitals providing “Plan B” or emergency contraception. It is available to girls over 18, and some hospitals just aren’t doling it out the way Planned Parenthood and NARAL would like it, including some of our Catholic Hopsitals, like St. Ann’s and Mount Carmel.
Here’s my thought. If you are a Catholic hospital (that is, affiliated with the Catholic Church), not only shoulkd you not have to distribute this stuff but you shouldn’t be doing it anyway. It’s against Church teaching. It’s like the adoption agencies in CA and MA that wouldn’t allow their kids to be placed with gay couples. It’s against Church doctrine. And I’m sorry but I think the state has to respect that. Doesn’t the constitution say that the state has to respect in the Free Exercise Clause?
Besides the fact, if you want Plan B, I wouldn’t think a Catholic hospital would be the first place you’d head. That just doesn’t make sense to me. If you want that, head for your local secular hospital. Columbus has plenty of them. And it’s not like you’ll die if you have to drive an extra 1/2 hour or so.
There has also been issues about pharmacists refusing to dispense the drug over the counter. Well, then find another pharmacy. Or another pharmacist.
Because really, if you don’t want a baby, don’t have sex. It’s really, really simple.
