Rather belatedly adding my first post to the UFL blog, and following up on Richard Myers’s post just below, here are a couple of good recent pieces by Prof. Helen Alvaré – formerly of the USCCB, now of George Mason Univ. School of Law – regarding the Administration’s decision to require health insurers to cover contraception with no copay:
I think that the decision matters to us pro-lifers not only because we too are concerned about conscience – though of course we are – but also because of what I’ve termed “The Incompatibility of Contraception with Respect for Life” (I wrote this paper some years ago now, and if I were rewriting it today I’d modify a few things, but I still think that my analysis is basically correct). (I’m interested in thinking about abortion not only in itself but also in its interrelationships with other phenomena in sexual/family, scientific/medical, cultural, economic, and political life; I hope I’m not inclined to see nonexistent connections.)