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Posted on 01/20/2012 10:14:36 AM PST by Pyro7480
Liberals are crowing about what they see as a huge victory for them — and they are right — because this victory comes at the expense of religious liberty.
Welcome to the Obama 2012 reelection plan: ignore and marginalize people of faith, pander to the far-left’s sexual-political priorities.
This via the far-left site ThinkProgress
Today, in a huge victory for women’s health, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that most employers will be required to cover contraception in their health plans, along with other preventive services, with no cost-sharing such as co-pays or deductibles. This means that after years of trying to get birth control covered to the same extent that health plans cover Viagra, our country will finally have nearly universal coverage of contraception.
Opponents of contraception had lobbied hard for a broad exemption that would have allowed any religiously-affiliated employer to opt out of providing such coverage. Fortunately, the Obama administration rejected that push and decided to maintain the narrow religious exemption that it initially proposed. Only houses of worship and other religious nonprofits that primarily employ and serve people of the same faith will be exempt. Religiously-affiliated employers who do not qualify for the exemption and are not currently offering contraceptive coverage may apply for transitional relief for a one-year period to give them time to determine how to comply with the rule.
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I made the mistake of reading the posts on the “Think[Re]gress” site. Most believe a woman has the right to do with her body as she pleases. Blind leading the blind.
Headache, heartache.
Libs (not that you are one) love to make this equivalence between contraception and viagra. They fail to distinguish that viagra is used to allow men whose abilities have been compromised by a medical condition to function normally - what is known as a medicine. Contraception is a means of PREVENTING a woman's body from functionally normally. They are trying to make pregnancy a "disease" - which, of course, dovetails nicely into their pro-abortion stand.
Why shouldn't a woman be allowed to cure a "disease" like pregnancy? And why shouldn't YOU have to pay for it? /sarc
I agree with that. And if Obama gets to appoint two or so more SCOTUS justices, watch out.
This guy could pick someone out of an “Occupy Protest” and nominate them, and the donkeys on the Hill would support them.
I think you so nailed it on the head.
Such as birth control pills aren’t all that expensive. They want to get abortion paid for by the taxpayers and be damned the sillies who think this is murder of the unborn.
They’ll keep trying until they win.
Your premise is false at the outset. I am not opposed to contraception. I don't want to control other people's lives. They can do as they like.
What I am opposed to is forcing a faith-based organization to pay for an activity that violates their faith. If contraception coverage is important to you, DON'T TAKE A JOB WITH A CATHOLIC ORGANIZATION. If having wine with your lunch is important to you, don't work for Muslim or Baptist organizations. If using illegal drugs is important to you, don't apply to an employer with drug testing. If you want to cheat on your taxes, don't work for the IRS. If you want to cheat on your spouse, think twice about running for president.
The only possible intrusion I can contemplate tolerating is requiring an organization that does not cover contraception or abortion to DISCLOSE that fact to applicants. Then the applicant can make the choice as to whether that is a problem for them or not - in other words, make an informed choice.
I don't want to control people who believe differently than I do on this subject - but neither do I want to be controlled BY them. And that is what this is all about - not conservatives trying to control women, but liberals trying to control conservatives.
And by the way, caring for poor children is important to conservatives. We just don't think that creating more poor children should be a government-subsidized career choice!
Why hasn’t this guy been impeached yet?
Correct.
Given that life starts at conception, not implantation, do you know of any studies that have tried to estimate the amount of embryos that are killed each year due to abortifacients and “contraception?”
It’s well known that abortion kills over a million a year, but I fear that this number, if possible to at least roughly estimate, could be astronomical.
Isn’t it liberals and democrats that are always crying about “separation of church and state”?
You have more faith than I in Justice Kennedy. I shudder to think how the 'wise' Latino and the similarly 'wise' Lesbian whisper sweet nothings in his ear at all the Washington cocktail parties.
troll much?
I could be wrong (yeah, right) but they might surprise you.
“creating more poor children should [not] be a government-subsidized career choice.” This is exactly my point. While I can see your arguments about not working at places that violate your own standards or choices, the anti contraception issue does not stop there. I get the impression that preventing contraception by everyone seems to be the goal of some religious/political efforts. It also seems to me that the people involved in those efforts do not seem to have any interest in the children who are born after their approach succeeds.
With all due respect, my conservative viewpoint on this topic is not a rejection of contraception itself. Rather, it is the notion that taxpayers should somehow be mandated to enable all American’s a free supply.
Have to also say that pulling the heartstrings of poor people and teens, doesn’t fly with me either. We should operate from the mandate that people take responsibility for their actions shouldn’t we? That if a couple chooses to have sex, there’s a good chance of a far greater responsibility ocurring 9 months later. We should neither inspire or enable people to be reckless with their decisions.
I also do not follow the comment that conservatives somehow wish to prevent sex education. I’d much rather have people prepared early to understand. I’m OK with school providing some of this, but as a parent, it’s my responsibility.
I did see that 9-0 verdict and promptly fell out of my chair. I guess God IS still in control.
That’s fine. Give the patient a placebo.
“Oh, that darned abortion pill failed AGAIN.”
I'm not Catholic but I fully support the right of the Catholic church not to dispense birth control at the expense of the church or in any facilities used in it's mission including health care which it owns and operates.
Preacher and Priest of all churches need to take up the fight on this one. It's about who controls the doctrine of the church. Is it the government or is it the churches? U.S. Constitution supports the churches.
HUH?....I don’t think you GOT what I was saying....whatever.
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This is why we must elect whoever the republican nominee is. None of the 4 left would do stuff like this.
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