Sort Of
--The arguments against imposing a contraception mandate on religious institutions have taken understandably a religious tone- like its about religious freedom, or establishment clause principles, or over-reach into religious governance, etc. All true. It hasn't focused on the science so much as the spiritual objections having to do with overpromiscuity, risky behavior promoted by technological bail outs, and general moral decline. So lets look at science.
The FDA webpage lists dangers of contraceptions:
http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm274455.htm
These are drugs. Stuff you don't find in nature. Chemicals you aren't born with.
Drugs.
And not infrequently the manufacturers have recalls for things like- whooooops we put the pill sequences in the wrong order (so you could get a stroke). This particular FDA page talks about blood clot dangers.
This is the subject of some serious litigation- of a wrongful death variety. Now go to the National Cancer Institute webpages on liver cancer caused by contraception.
There is a reason people don't take this stuff.
So if you are a school and you have to provide it at some cost shifting to somewhere, what sense does that make? Why is the government turning itself into a pusher?
http://www.medpagetoday.com/OBGYN/Pregnancy/29321
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