Letters to the Editor
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Deluded.
Okay, we all still know the occasional Catholic family with six kids. But the key word here is 'occasional', and honestly the larger families I know are more often conservative Protestants than Catholics. I grew up in a very Catholic town, and my Catholic peers all had one, maybe two siblings. I dated a Catholic guy with one younger sister.
Does the church honestly think that the Catholic populace really isn't using birth control? Do they think that the married couples in the church have just decided that they don't really like having sex after all? I'll grant that it's probably true in some cases, but across the board like this, it's just hard to believe.
When even your own followers have stopped listening to that doctrine, using it as an excuse not to cover prescriptions for your employees is a little silly. It's not going to stop anybody from using contraception, it's just going to make medical care unfairly more expensive for the women who use birth control (which is to say, almost all of them).