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A 4 page essay/research paper that examines whether or not the Catholic Church, as an employer, should offer women health care coverage for contraception. After examining both sides of this issue, the writer argues that the Church provide such coverage. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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insurance coverage, women who work for Catholic institutions do not because of the rationale that coverage of birth control related expenses goes against Church doctrine. Recently a controversy has arisen
over this issue due to a controversial decision by the California Supreme Court. On March 1, 2004, the California Supreme Court ruled that Catholic charities must provide their employees with
health care coverage for contraception even though the Catholic Church is opposed to contraception (Coerced, 2004). Examination of both sides of this issue demonstrates that the position of the
California Supreme Court is just and fair and that Catholic employers should provide the same coverage as other businesses. The California Catholic Conference was appalled by the decision of
the court and also fearful that this could " open the door to mandated insurance coverage of abortion" (Coerced, 2004, p. 6). Jeffrey (2004) describes the California courts decision as
"tyranny" and asks "What if a state legislature enacted, and a state Supreme court upheld, a law forcing family businesses operated by orthodox Jews to remain open on the
Sabbath" (p. 7). Surely, reasons Jeffrey, this would be recognized as crass and unconstitutional (2004). While there is undeniably a certain logic to such arguments, the reality is that
the situations are not precisely parallel. A closer analogy might be if businesses owned by orthodox Jews argued that they did not have to provide maternity leave, paid or unpaid,
to unmarried mothers because of religious beliefs prohibiting premarital sex. American courts have established a standard for employee benefits. This standard differs to some degree from state to state,
but basically it offers a benefits that are predicated on perceived standards of fairness and equity between the sexes. Within this framework, all employers should be held to the same
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