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I have a problem with Catholics saying they oppose the ACA because of religious reasons/contraception when 68% of Catholic women use some form of contraception that falls under the ACA's payment...
Reeks of Hypocriticism....
I remember back in the election of 08- even many women posting on the blogs that identified themselves as Republican and Catholics ran from Palins wanting to do away with/limit sex education and contraceptive methods....
Times are changing- even amongst the women in the Catholic Church... How many can afford a dozen kids anymore... :???: I know of lifetime Catholic ladies that had abortions... One had multiple...
Reeks of Hypocriticism....
The data listed in the Guttmacher report, meanwhile, referred to current contraceptive use among “sexually active women who are not pregnant, post-partum or trying to get pregnant.” That is a smaller universe of women, and it shows that 68 percent of Catholic women used what are termed “highly effective methods:” 32 percent sterilization; 31 percent pill; five percent IUD.
Again, only two percent currently used natural family planning. Interestingly, 11 percent used nothing, even though they were not trying to get pregnant. Four percent were placed in an “other” category, which mainly consisted of “withdrawal,” which is also not accepted by the Catholic Church as a birth-control method.
The data also indicated there were relatively few differences among women of different religions in terms of the contraception method that was used. Evangelicals appeared more likely to rely on sterilization, but almost no one used “natural” family planning.
Jones noted that there has long been data showing that Catholic women are avid users of artificial contraception. The first NSFG survey, which in 1973 was administered only to married women, shows that 66.4 percent of all married Catholic women of child-bearing age at the time used contraception.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-claim-that-98-percent-of-catholic-women-use-contraception-a-media-foul/2012/02/16/gIQAkPeqIR_blog.html
I remember back in the election of 08- even many women posting on the blogs that identified themselves as Republican and Catholics ran from Palins wanting to do away with/limit sex education and contraceptive methods....
Times are changing- even amongst the women in the Catholic Church... How many can afford a dozen kids anymore... :???: I know of lifetime Catholic ladies that had abortions... One had multiple...