Bishops Join GOP Drive To Make Women Celibate Or Birth Machines

By: Rmuse
Friday, January, 9th, 2015, 12:04 pm   
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There is an idiom; "give em' an inch and they'll take a mile" that means if someone is given a small concession, or a measure of power, they will take advantage and demand even more. Throughout human history no group has exerted more control over humanity than religion, particularly the Catholic religion. Despite it being the 21st Century and not the 1400s, American Catholic bishops are taking advantage of the power bestowed on them by the conservative Catholics on the Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby ruling. As is typical of the bishops, their aim is controlling American women and forcing them to either become celibate or perpetual birthing machines.
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It was not enough that the bishops were successful in getting empowered to restrict contraceptive use, now they are going for another form of birth control. The bishops consider tubal ligation as "intrinsically immoral" as an abortion, and because the Supreme Court's Papal 5 agreed that regardless all known biological science, what the bishops and Hobby Lobby consider abortion is indeed abortion; including contraceptives. And, because the conservative court deconstructed and redefined the 1st Amendment's Establishment and Free Exercise clauses to mean authority to impose religion, evangelicals were empowered to ban their employees from access to contraceptives. According to American neo-Christianity, Dark Age mentality, and the Church's lust for unlimited control, women are to remain celibate unless they are prepared to bear children. It is another religious machination to control women.
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For years, Catholic medical centers such as Genesys Health System allowed doctors to actually practice medicine and perform tubal ligations (tubes tied) immediately after delivering a baby for new mothers who want to ensure they never get pregnant again.  The policy had been a long-established standard of care; particularly for women who delivered by cesarean section. It is the second-most popular form of birth control after the pill and the most dependable form available to women. Now, because the US Catholic bishops consider tubal ligations abortion, regardless the mother just gave birth, the procedure is banned as an "intrinsically immoral" act against god and the all-male, all-controlling, U.S. bishops.
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