i was told that they have to provide contraceptive coverage because it would be discriminating against a class that is child bearing women not to provide it. now to my mind that says, well, there s a countervailing law out there already from 2000 which says that you have to provide these drugs equally. yeah. there s a lot of confusion about this. i ve been talking to a lot of people about it. we checked in colorado which is one of the states where they say absolutely no exemption. you know, the catholic institutions have to cover it. when i read the colorado law, it didn t look like they have to cover it. it looks like an exemption in there to me. as it turns out, we got had this message from the head of catholic charities of central colorado. under colorado state law, catholic charities is not required to provide contraception and sterilization
well, i m not as good on the areas you are, lawrence. i called a couple hospitals to day where i knew someone and could get some information because i called the huge hospitals, catholic hospital association, the long island catholic hospital group, and i kept being referred to the diocese. so the two hospitals where i called which are catholic hospitals, they do provide prescription drug coverage. i was told that they have to provide contraceptive coverage because it would be discriminating against a class that is child bearing women not to provide it. now to my mind that says, well, there s a countervailing law out there already from 2000 which says that you have to provide these drugs equally. yeah.
southern desert. fighters had been chasing the younger gadhafi for more than two weeks to the capital of libya right now, tripoli. what can you tell us about how this all unfolded? reporter: well, we re hearing from senior military officials among the revolutionary fighters who are telling us that the capture took place after a stake out, an 18 day stake out deep in the southern deserts of libya. we understand that is where saif gadhafi was hiding and they tell us they believe he was trying to make his way to neighboring niger. now after 18 days of this stake-out they finally moved in on a convoy at about 2:00 p.m. local time and after a gun battle that took place for about two hours they say that saif and members of his entourage surrendered to the revolutionary force and after that he was taken to the western mountain city where the fighters captured him came from where he s being held now in an undisclosed location. what s the overall reaction from ordinary people in t
we still aren t able to deal with that fact and make it easy for people to make decisions about child bearing. paradoxically, if we did, population would probably stop growing before that 9 billion number in 2044 and gradually start declining, but we face a lot of obstacles to make that available. lester, what s my takeaway relative to population and the heat wave we re experiencing all across the country. if you re concerned about climate change, you have to address the population issue. bob was talking about the women in the world who want access to family planning. tlr 215 million women who want to plan their families but lack access to family planning services. one of the things we can do is press for more assistance. that family planning gap, filling it would take very little in the way of resources. the benefits would be huge to
yes, there are tremendous differences in per capita emissions and we should be addressing them. but everyone engages in activities that releases greenhouse gases. does it also raise family planning matters? is lurking in the background some kind of choice debate that people don t want to tie to this issue? people haven t realized yet that women want to use family planning. one of the reasons we have the number of people we do in the world is women historically and still today have not been able to choose for themselves when, who with and how often to have children. look, people have sex a lot more often than they want to become new parents. we still aren t able to deal with that fact and make it easy for people to make decisions about child bearing. paradoxically, if we did, population would probably stop growing before that 9 billion number in 2044 and gradually start declining, but we face a lot of obstacles to make that available. lester, what s my takeaway relative to populat