Bishops need to learn that the biggest threat to religious freedom lately is their refusal to respect the divide of church & state.  We Catholics would not prefer our bishops run our states or country or judiciaries.  Sexism for me is the number one reason I would never choose any of our bishops to run most anything.  If they are not careful about their obvious political lobbying in the future, we could see our church declared a political action committee by our government & be demanded to pay taxes.  This is not a result our church could easily afford to pay.  Jesus never said that anyone was sinning by using non-abortive birth control.  No one is being forced to use any abortive or non-abortive contraceptives by this mandate.  

This fact should matter to our church but sadly it does not: All countries that have restricted access to birth control have higher abortion rates.  In fact our abortion rates recently dropped likely due to greater access to contraception due to this mandate.