Sunday Reflection: Dividing Catholics from their church

Published November 24, 2012 5:00am ET



Catholicism teaches that it is a sin to use, provide, or otherwise support contraception.”

These words are not from the Catholic Catechism or a sermon by a Catholic bishop. They are excerpted from the preliminary injunction U.S. District Judge Robert H. Cleland issued last month. It temporarily stopped the Obama administration from forcing a family-owned outdoor power equipment company to comply with an Obamacare regulation that requires virtually all health care plans to provide women (but not men) with coverage for sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs.

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