Possibly because men and women are urged to marry very young to avoid the perceived danger of premarital sex. The result is that many couples enter marriage as very immature young adults. It is only after a number of years, and a number of children, that they realize they are totally mismatched and the marriage crumbles. In the area of health care, we are already confronting conflicts between religious dogma and patients' rights. As some Catholic hospitals take over secular ones, doctors complain that they can no longer offer such services as contraception, voluntary sterilization and some kids of fertility treatment to their female patients.
Abortion is out of the question.
A University of Pennsylvania study found that although emergency contraception is standard treatment for rape victims, some Catholic hospitals do not tell victims about that method unless they ask and then it may not be available. This is not to say that all faith-based ministries should be barred from federal aid. Groups like the Salvation Army, Catholic Charities and Jewish Family Services offer care without asking for conversion, and they hire professionals who know the most effective methods for dealing with family dysfunction, addiction and other social ills. Certainly, some religious groups do wonderful work in prisons, with addicts and with kids. We citizens may find ourselves subsidizing ideologies that we find personally repugnant.