Posted on 03/23/2014 8:19:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The U.S. Justice Department is telling the Supreme Court that killing a human embryo by preventing the embryo from implanting in his or her mother’s uterus is not an “abortion” and, thus, drugs that kill embryos this way are not “abortion-inducing” drugs.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby. The crux of the administration’s argument in this case is that when Christians form a corporation they give up the right to freely exercise their religion—n.b. live according to their Christian beliefs—in the way they run their business.
It is in the context of this case, that the administration is making its argument that killing an embryo seeking to implant in his or her mother’s womb is not an abortion.
The dispute involves a regulation that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued under the Affordable Care Act. This regulation says that virtually all health insurance plans must cover, without any fees or co-pay, all FDA-approved “contraceptives.” …
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We’re being robbed to pay for this rot, more accurately. This is the chastisement-with-scorpions phase.
Department of Jackasses.
speaking personally, only, i think that in addition to the frustration and the attempted abrogation of our constitutional rights......and having to pay for all of it, i also find it disgusting
how they are treating the American people
but ... the people keep voting for more of the same...
go figure!? masochism? something akin to the infamous Jewish Suicide Syndrome — but a national American version of the disease? a mind-rotting virus?
That’s not a rational approach towards conception. Fertilization of an ovum is a far more reasonable line between “cell” and “developing human”.
By the time implantation would occur, a unique composite genome has already formed, and many cellular divisions have already taken place, effectively creating a new and unique organism. Quite frankly, that’s life.
That’s life far more complex than you’re going to see in any prokaryote. Implantation is merely a a phase of that organism’s life, one it may complete or not (such as gestation, infancy, childhood, college, etc.).
Any dividing line drawn significantly after conception is really unsupportable. Some dishonest or easily influenced individuals may point to the high rates of human miscarriage, and the significant number pregnancies that end without implantation successfully taking place, but that’s a truly illogical argument with no comparable basis in fact - the fact that a child may suffer from SIDS, or that historically the MAJORITY of children born never reached adulthood, does not imply that a unique individual person did not exist prior to leaving infancy or childhood.
The rate of miscarriage or failure to implant is utterly immaterial to the argument of whether or not life has begun. Just as the historical childhood mortality rate is immaterial to the argument of whether or not a child is a human being.
Please see my post#24.
If Hobby Lobby loses then businesses won't be able to opt out of whatever nonsense is foisted upon them by the government.
If Hobby Lobby wins then corporations will use this decision to justify bad behavior that has absolutely nothing to do with the decision, but that will be technically allowed based on strained readings of the decision.
The 14th Amendment has been invoked far more times to grant corporations the rights normally only allotted to citizens than by blacks to get the same rights as whites.
I was thinking we could just call it murder. Short and to the point.
Like my mother who has Alzheimer's.
“then how do muslims get exceptions for their religious beliefs?”
Because they are a death cult and liberals are pussies.
The question of whether it has a spirit, a soul or a mind may not be possible to answer with science but science does answer, without equivocation, that it is an individual living human being from the moment of conception or at least very shortly after when the two half-strands of DNA combine.
Have I got this right? Christians who form a corporation lose their First Amendment rights.
Wouldn’t it then follow that, when a news organization forms a corporation, they give up their right to the First Amendment protections for the press?? The networks just might not buy into that particular idea.
Maybe his utter foolishness is our friend here. We will see.
It’s being so comfortably accepted, perhaps, because American apathy, borne of expecting nothing but lies and excuses from its government, had already reached the point where it would be accepted. So the Democrats learned that they could pitch to the gutter and it was accepted.
The weakest spot is primaries. Here is where a huge difference could be made. But despair reigns and couches are warmed instead of voting booths visited.
The “ex-Dem” claim is getting more and more tenuous.
Rights are absolute. If they can be “lost”, then they are really privileges; therefore rights cannot be lost except by becoming truly criminal.
That’s the “rule of man” versus the rule of law. Anything can be made up by the ruler, and said ruler is above his own rules.
Kelo was the day it died to me.
Holder’s DO Reparations is disgusting. The man is a sick disgusting human.
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