I know you know this already, but allow me nonetheless to state the obvious with regard to the Catholic/contraception issue…

According to CNN.com; “Under the new plan announced by Obama, religiously affiliated universities and hospitals will not be forced to offer contraception coverage to their employees. Insurers will be required, however, to offer complete coverage free of charge to any women who work at such institutions.”

The last sentence suggesting complete free-of-charge coverage is an insult to any thinking adult’s intelligence… I.e., all of the insurers’ insureds, religiously affiliated employees and otherwise, will pick up the tab (in their premiums) for the Administration’s politically-critical compromise…

And I can’t pass up Harry Read’s statement: “I strongly support the rule announced today because in the year 2012, women should not be denied access to contraception. … Whether women choose to use contraception should be their decision, not the decision of their employers or politicians in Washington.”

Say what? Women have every right to use contraceptives… I think all drug stores carry them… The only decision their employers [should] have the right to make is whether or not to pick up the tab…

Find me an industry where rising government intrusion doesn’t correlate with rising costs… Don’t bother looking; a sperm of a man wearing a condom has better odds of finding an egg in a woman on the pill using an IUD…