{"id":534,"date":"2012-02-12T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2012\/02\/clarification.html"},"modified":"2015-01-13T14:13:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T19:13:20","slug":"clarification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2012\/02\/clarification.html","title":{"rendered":"Clarification"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>The Obama Administration is using the \u201cpreventative care\u201d mandates of the 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/useconomy.about.com\/od\/healthcarereform\/f\/Patient-Affordable-Care-Act.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act <\/a>to force religious people to provide morally objectionable contraceptive, abortifacients, and sterilization procedures in direct contradiction of the tenets of their faiths.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it\u2019s time to review what Preventative Care is and isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>The National Library of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/cgi\/mesh\/2011\/MB_cgi?mode=&amp;term=Preventive+Medicine\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Science<\/a> defines Preventative Care as referring to \u201cmeasures taken to<b> prevent diseases,(or injuries)<\/b> rather than curing them or treating their symptoms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let me simplify this a bit for you:<\/p>\n<table class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">This is a disease\u00a0 (Cholera)<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<table class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">This is <b>not<\/b> a disease. <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">This is a disease\u00a0 (Measles)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">This is <b>not<\/b> a disease. <\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">This is a disease (Small Pox)<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">This is <b>not <\/b>a disease.<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">This is Preventative Care<\/span><\/td>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/files\/-nxVxKnvK6X8\/TzhR5PkEPOI\/AAAAAAAAA_k\/QpuhvZB6FAs\/s1600\/bcp.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">This is NOT!<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><span style=\"color: #0b5394;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Agree?\u00a0 Why not pass it on?\u00a0 Click the Facebook \u201cF\u201d or Twitter \u201cT\u201d.\u00a0 Thanks!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama Administration is using the \u201cpreventative care\u201d mandates of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to force religious people to provide morally objectionable contraceptive, abortifacients, and sterilization procedures in direct contradiction of the tenets of their faiths. 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