Washington D.C., Feb 28, 2012 / 13:35 pm
Women in fields ranging from law to medicine denounced the Obama administration's contraception mandate, arguing that it violates religious freedom and promotes a culture that degrades women.
“This whole idea of contraception, sterilization and abortifacients as being necessary for a woman’s health is actually demeaning to women,” said Gloria Purvis, a policy director at a major financial services company and board member for the Northwest Pregnancy Center and Maternity Home.
She explained that this idea is based on the belief “that women, because of our fertility, are deficient, and we need fixing,” and warned that the mandate “further presses this false perception into the American psyche.”
Purvis took part in a Feb. 27 panel of women at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C. that spoke out against the Jan. 20 mandate announced by the Obama administration.