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Last night on MSNBC, Fluke argued that employers cannot be exempted from the contraception mandate in Obamacare because that would mean they could also opt. out of paying for insurance that covers blood transfusions.

This isn't the first time Fluke has compared contraception to life saving medical procedures that have nothing to do with religious beliefs.

I believe Christian Scientists object to blood transfusions on religious grounds.

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I know Jehovah's Witnesses do. I served as General Counsel for a children's hospital for over two years and frequently dealt with this issue. Their belief was based on Acts 15:20:

"Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood."

Fourteen was the age at which a child was allowed to make the medical decision on his or her own. Before that age, if the child's life or seriously bodily injury was at issue, the hospital was required by state law to seek a legal guardian for the child to make the medical decision on the grounds that the parent(s) were unfit.

It was not an easy thing to make that argument in family court when I could see how much the family cared for the child.

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Their objections extended to medications derived from blood products, as well as to blood transfusions.