<p>A few things. First, the timing after graduation was to make sure graduation was focused on the graduates and not the law suit (given the Obama protest experience). Second, even my liberal/moderate friends at ND were happy over the suit. It’s not about whether women can use birth control, it’s over whether a religious organization can be forced to pay for said choice.</p>
<p>Second, ND is a very generous employer. No one besides student workers make anything near minimum wage. If you choose to purchase contraceptives which is well within your rights, Notre Dame is well within its rights to tell you to go pay for it. </p>
<p>Third Shelzie, the definition of life at implantation is not accepted by the church. My clinical mentor and some neonatologists I know laugh when someone makes the claim that Birth Control’s only action is by preventing ovulation. As the church sees life beginning at conception, it also sees BC as an abortifacient. Whether another party defines life as beginning at implantation is immaterial to the church’s view.</p>
<p>Furthermore, if you want to go the preventing ovarian cancer route, that is at least partly mitigated by the fact that increasing consumption of estrogen increases the risk of breast cancer.</p>