Posted on 06/30/2014 3:19:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
After today's Supreme Court ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby, the left and Democrats are predictably claiming the 5-4 decision bans contraception for women.
Matt Canter @mattcanter
DSCC: Nearly every GOP candidate supports radical
measures that would block birth control &roll back
women’s health care rights even further
10:34 AM - 30 Jun 2014
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Sandra Fluke @SandraFluke
Supreme Court rules that bosses can deny employees
coverage of birth control. #HobbyLobby #NotMyBossBusiness
9:24 AM - 30 Jun 2014
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That claim is completely false. Not to mention, Hobby Lobby itself provides coverage of 16 different types of contraception to its employees.
The Green family has no moral objection to the use of 16 of 20 preventive contraceptives required in the mandate, and Hobby Lobby will continue its longstanding practice of covering these preventive contraceptives for its employees. However, the Green family cannot provide or pay for four potentially life-threatening drugs and devices. These drugs include Plan B and Ella, the so-called morning-after pill and the week-after pill. Covering these drugs and devices would violate their deeply held religious belief that life begins at the moment of conception, when an egg is fertilized.
Facts matter, but to the left, emotion on this issue wins.
“The Plan B pill, if used within 24 hours will prevent pregnancy...”
I think your wrong on that... In that it doesn’t prevent conception.
It is fair to point out that Hobby Lobby already covers 16 types of contraception.
But, what if an employer objects to all contraception on religious grounds. That is a sincerely held Catholic belief for as long as I ever remember and maybe for hundreds of years. I don’t really know, since I’m not Catholic.
Should they not be allowed to have their faith be the basis of their daily life, too?
The real culprit here is a government forcing an employer to provide health coverage. There really is no logical reason for that.
I would:
1. Disconnect employers from health insurance altogether.
2. Have insurance companies sell insurance.
3. Have individuals buy health insurance.
4. If the government wants to, it can also sell a policy. Doesn’t it sell flood insurance?
“I’m in the first priority group with the VA and I still don’t receive dental care. I do receive hearing and vision care, though.”
Well, I’m in the last group with too many assets and I just get hearing no vision and no dental. I do get drugs with an $8 copay, but I don’t use it. My retirement insurance is a $5 copay.
Is there a list somewhere of the 20 forms of contraception, and the 4 that this case was about?
Unfortunately, there is an answer to that question.
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