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From ASBO Jesus.

SORRY STUDENTS - NO HEALTH INSURANCE FOR YOU

From Laura Bassett at Huff Post Politics:

Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic institution in Ohio, has decided to drop its entire student health insurance plan as of the fall semester 2012 because of the new federal rule requiring contraception coverage under most employee and student health policies.
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The announcement is somewhat misleading. Under the new rule, Franciscan University would not have to pay for any student's contraception. The administration carved out an exemption for religious organizations, including Catholic schools, that would require the insurance company itself to pay for the insured's birth control coverage "directly and separately." Nonprofit schools that don't currently cover birth control can also qualify for a one-year transition period to comply with the new requirement. 

Will the university provide health insurance for their employees?  Or are all the university employees celibate and not in need of coverage for contraceptives?   I checked the website, and not all the faculty are Franciscans.

You'd think the administration would be forced to hand out the contraceptives themselves, but there are so many degrees of separation between the powers of the institution and the actual dispensing of the contraceptives that they appear ridiculous.  They strive for a kind of purity which is impossible to achieve and live in the world.  This from a church that found it acceptable to have a policy of covering up child abuse for decades.  It is a puzzlement.

Let's get this straight: That the students at Franciscan University will not have health insurance is not the doing of the president but rather of the authorities in the Roman Catholic Church.