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IRVINE, Chuck Feeney: It is amazing the way politically motivated people pick up on potential campaign issues. Here are some reasons why Republicans should rethink the contraception issue for that purpose:

• Virtually 98 percent of women during childbearing years have used some form of birth control.
• About 70 percent of Catholic women use birth control, because they do not want to become pregnant. Birth control is expensive so many women can’t afford it.
• At least 28 states already have laws requiring health insurance plans to cover birth control at no cost.
• As an employer, Catholic schools and hospitals hire non-Catholic workers, so why should the laws that require the payment for birth control not apply to religious institutions?

• Health insurers might pretend that they are annoyed with this new law, but they gladly would pay for the cost of birth control. Since they are in business to make a profit, the cost of birth control dwarfs the costs of pregnancy and the medical care of children, so the overall cost of insurance (or self-insurance) is lower.

If Republican candidates use the contraception issue in their campaigns, their chances of losing are greater.

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ORANGE, Greg Wright: It amazes me that the Register puts a cartoon depicting Obamacare imposing on religious freedom. How dare he?

However, the religious Right has no problem stomping on freedom to marry. Complete right-wing hypocrisy. Don’t tell us what we can do, but we will tell you what you can do.

The far-right wing of today is a fading breed that can’t even decide on a candidate to challenge Obama. That is why despite the economic woes; thankfully Obama will likely be re-elected.

Church doesn’t adapt

NEWPORT BEACH, Bill Spitalnick: Letter-writer Jennifer Marks said, “It’s ridiculous to let a group of unmarried, celibate priests dictate reproductive policies to families” [“Obamacare changes,” Opinion, Feb. 13]. Marks is 100 percent right on. The Roman Catholic Church’s thinking may have been satisfactory a few centuries ago, but apparently the word “change” is not in the Catholic Church’s vocabulary for today’s families. I can appreciate the church’s trepidation in a woman wanting an abortion. But what is confusing and frustrating is its belief in birth control, not counting its method of abstinence.

What about a woman who has been raped? Should she have the kid? The Catholic Church needs to re-examine its methods and think along the lines of what would be best for its people and not what the Church thinks is the best thing to do.

In all history one thing is constant, and that is the concept of change.

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CHINO, James M. Dorn: Obamacare is a huge power grab by the Democratic members of Congress and a Democratic president at the expense of the people of the United States.

Obamacare was enacted under the authority of the Constitution’s Commerce Clause, which gives the federal government power to regulate commerce among the states. Today, virtually every product comes via interstate commerce. If Obamacare can force you to buy health care on its terms and punish you if you do not simply because health care is interstate commerce, it can force you to buy anything else and specify the manufacturer or distributor from whom to buy it. Political favoritism could therefore determine what products the federal government would allow or forbid us to buy. Free choice in America’s marketplaces would be a thing of the past.

With this power the federal government could effectively negate our rights under the Ninth and 10th Amendments. In these Amendments the framers reserved the bulk of the political power to us, the people. These great amendments were intended to state, in unequivocal terms, that the people were the master and the federal government was the servant.

Businesses would a particular target of an all-powerful federal government. The Obama administration has tried to stop Boeing from relocating one of its aircraft manufacturing facilities from Democratic-leaning Washington state to Republican-leaning South Carolina. Any business with hope of surviving would have little choice but to kowtow to Washington, D.C., politicians and bureaucrats. The scale of the bribery would exceed that found in many third world countries. Politicians would enter the Congress and the White House as paupers and become multimillionaires in a few years and billionaires in 20 years.

Obamacare is not just a take over of the control of health care in America. It is a blatant assault on our Constitution, the foundation of our Republic, upon our government of the people, by the people and for the people, and the freedoms in our Constitution that we hold dear.

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MISSION VIEJO, Jeff Eales: So, President Barack Obama adjusts birth-control policy, because of pressure from (primarily) Roman Catholics and other Christian organizations and backs down from his mandate that religious organizations must provide contraception to women. While this issue is important, and his backing down is the correct constitutional result, this whole administration Read the rest of this entry »