Following recommendations by the Institute of Medicine, the Obama administration has announced that insurance plans will be required to cover contraceptives, which include abortion-inducing drugs such as Plan B and Ella, as well as elective sterilizations.
"We're tired of the pain and the heartache of just having abortions pushed on us and condoms thrown at us," said Katherine Nikas, a Blackstone intern with the Alliance Defense Fund.
After the Institute of Medicine backed government-mandated birth control coverage, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is standing in the breach against what would prove a massive victory for abortion giant Planned Parenthood.
While surgical abortion coverage could not be mandated given federal law, IOM experts indicated they favored the procedure as a potential "essential preventive service."
In an article that one prominent Catholic professor called "peculiar," the NYTimes shared the tale of a young Evangelical couple that had championed NFP and then recanted, only to get divorced three years later.
The organization has clubs in Catholic schools across Ontario, which contribute thousands annually, and its co-founder Craig Kielburger has been lauded as a role model for youth by Catholic schools and media.