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ther ARE some non birth control reasons to take the birth control pills. (thyroid, painful periods etc)

Thank you for pointing that out. I use birth control pills because I became anemic due to excessively long periods. I know several other women who are using birthcontol pills for similar reasons. While I do not work for the Church, I enjoy the fact that my employer's health insurance package covers my pills.

Thank you for pointing that out. I use birth control pills because I became anemic due to excessively long periods. I know several other women who are using birthcontol pills for similar reasons.

That's not what this issue is about. Those who may have legitimate medical reasons are caught in the crossfire.

That sucks, but that's life.

you're talking about the difference between legitimate medical usage and volutary usage.
kinda like the difference between reconstructive plastic surgery after an accident, and getting a boob job or a tummy tuck.

Low cost pills are available on the internet

http://www.birthcontrol.com/product_display.aspx?productid=2

These are offered at about 20.00 a month. If one truly needs BC pills for medical reasons other than contraception, buy them if one works for the church.

As for the church having to buy them, it's just plain wrong. In my parish there are many women being treated for excessive bleeding and painful periods by NFP doctors. No BC pills.
When I was having periods that looked more like the floodgates were openned, I told my GYN no BC pills. It can be done if one is Catholic and follows the laws of the church.

Regardless of the reason for taking birth control pills, the person using them should be fully advised about what the pill--depending on how it is compounded--really does.
--it sterilizes on a cyclical basis, meaning that it suppresses ovulation and that the "period" which comes after the cyclical cessation of the pill is a false period, and is technically called "break-through bleeding".
--depending on the particular pill taken, it can be a multi-spectrum type--a)suppress ovulation, failing to do that, b)prevent a conception from adhering to the uterine wall and surviving, c) expelling the "products" (so-called)of conception.. in short, it acts as an abortifacient.
--the patient should be given the full pharmaceutical read-out of the possible consequences of taking the particular pill they have been prescribed.
--the pill is nature-changing. To change the naure (natural state) of the human body is not a trivial matter.

In today's world of alternative medicine and daily increasing knowledge of new ways to treat physical problems, there are many answers to such problems as excessive periods. And there are many legitimate websites to give information and assistance.