From: hrubin@skew.stat.purdue.edu   
      
   On 2012-02-13, Barb May  wrote:   
   > Ubiquitous wrote:   
      
   >> Catholic institutions must insure their employees for abortifacient   
   >> drugs   
      
   > Nope. Birth control pills are not abortifacients.   
      
   > In 1965, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)   
   > adopted the following definition: "conception is the implantation of a   
   > fertilized ovum."   
      
   >> and sterilization procedures   
      
   > Not true now and never was true.   
      
   >> in violation of religious law   
      
   > You mean religious belief. Religions can't make laws.   
      
   Unfortunately, religions can and do.  Whether they can   
   be enforced is another matter.  Imposing religious   
   belief is a "religious law", which should certainly not   
   be allowed to take effect, and all of the major religions,   
   to my knowledge, do this.  This violates the separation   
   of church and state, first promulgated by the preacher   
   Roger Williams in 1640.   
      
      
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