What Does Birth Control Have To Do With Health?

Health means well-being.  Measures and procedures aimed at combatting illness, disease or destructive human conditions (obesity, for instance) are all health-related activities. 
The Administration evidently wants to expand that definition by including in its Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) efforts to combat pregnancy as well by requiring employers (with limited religious exceptions) to provide insurance coverage for a variety of birth control activities.

Is it cynical to respond that the White House thinks it has the opportunity to implement an additional element of its social policy dear to the left, Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice) forces?  (Abortion is also made available in the form of the “morning after” pill.)

Americans may dispute how to make genuine health care available to all our people but no one denies the desirability of the objective.

Plainly, the same cannot be said of birth control.  (The Catholic Church hierarchy is certainly not its only foe.)  We disagree among ourselves.  To use or not to use is indeed a right widely recognized.  But if I am in opposition why should I be forced, as an employer, to fund your choice?

So often in modern America, what starts as a right to do something morphs into someone else’s obligation to pay for it. 

How is it that certain segments of our society (liberals all?) have forgotten that America has historically stood for the proposition that liberty means the right to seek… not an entitlement to receive?