Insurance companies must fully cover contraception, HIV and HPV screening and a handful of other women’s health services under new guidelines released Monday by the Obama administration.
Insurers may not charge a co-payment or deductible or require co-insurance for any of the preventative measures outlined by an Institute of Medicine (IOM) panel charged with identifying services considered necessary for the health and well-being of women.
The administration chose to adopt all of the panel’s recommendations from a nonpartisan, adding them to the list of preventative services insurance companies must now cover at no extra charge under President Obama’s health care bill, the 2010 Affordable Care Act....
Bibliophile, you seem like a nice fellow and are obviously sincere in your thoughts. But according to scripture, being nice and sincere does not make someone right. Therefore, your comments on birth control, although they may in fact be correct or at a minimum warrant additional thought, do not allow the genuine body of Christ to fellowship or to come into agreement with you. This is not meant to be unkind or unloving.
We are to separate from those who are not sound in the faith (2Tim. 3:5).
Holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
We are not to encourage or cooperate with persons of unsound doctrine (2Jn. 10-11).
10. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; 11. for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.
We are commanded not to join forces with unbelievers in the Lord's work (2Cor. 6:14).
Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Also, how does steroidal contraception impact women?
"How often do doctors in America prescribe a Group One carcinogen - one recognized as a “definite” cause of cancer - to otherwise healthy patients?
Answer: as often as they prescribe the hormonal birth control pill."
No wonder why Susan J. Komen's "Race for the [breast cancer] Cure" provides proceeds to Planned Parenthood for research to eliminate the cancer-causing effects of The Pill.