Well said. I have thought the same thing - are women just receptacles for babies? Then even the female babies just grow up to be receptacles for more babies and therefore only male babies grow up to be persons. I find all this hard to reconcile with the New Testament of helping the poor and the helpless. This exclusive concentration on sex and denying women agency over their bodies and lives seems to me to reveal more about the patriarchal and sex obsessed people who seem to reside in the more conservative (weird?) churches and political parties than it does any message of Christianity.

Half of all pregnancies in the USA are unplanned. Half those unplanned pregnancies are terminated by medical abortion.

The notion of personhood for a foetus, before it able to be 'sentient', is a false notion.

I disagree, the State should never be able to force religious people to participate in terminating human life, which is what the HHS ruling would do, as understood by Catholics.

Since when has it been an acceptable view that tax payers must fund a woman's sexual habits. What does society get out of a given female sleeping with men of poor quality?

and of course the right for the child not to be slaughtered comes last. Just use pseudo science to hide the obvious fact that this is a human being we are talking about. Naming it a foetus does not change the plain truth. And the secularist claim rationality. How deceitful. If you agree with a women's right to kill her child call it that. Blathering on about the very small percentage of abortions due to rape really is the deceitful diguise the feminist of the 60's and 70's used to obscure the fact that they want the right to have sex with whomever and take no responsiblity. Moral relativism is one of secularisms dogmas. Just rename things and give it a 'scientific ' justification.

progressive?pat,
All they are doing is using govt funding to encourage all organisations (who receive govt funding) to provide services for the people who are entitled to those services and who want them (religious people, often).

Speaking of men of "poor quality", it is a well known fact that catholic priests and even bishops have impregnated naive susceptible women, and even arranged for abortions too.

Then of course there is the case of the hundreds of "high quality" catholic priests who were involved in various forms of sexual child abuse, including of course rape. To say nothing of the systematic INSTITUTIONALIZED brutality towards countless thousands of children all over the world.

Plus we all know how the "high quality" members of the catholic hierarchy, including the power-brokers in Rome, covered all of this up