Posted on 10/06/2017 6:42:31 PM PDT by mdittmar
New Rule Permits All Employers to Opt Out of Birth Control Coverage, Sweeping Step Toward Completely Dismantling the Birth Control Benefit
The Trump Administration just took direct aim at birth control coverage for 62 million women, eliminating the guarantee that health insurance would cover contraception.
WASHINGTON, DC The Trump administration has taken direct aim at birth control coverage for more than 62 million American women, eliminating the guarantee they had for coverage for birth control regardless of who they work for. On Friday morning, they announced a sweeping new rule to eliminate the Affordable Care Acts requirement that all insurance plans must cover birth control without a co-pay or otherwise ensure access to birth control coverage for women whose employers or schools can legally opt out of providing coverage.
Statement from Cecile Richards, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America:
The Trump administration just took direct aim at birth control coverage for 62 million women. This is an unacceptable attack on basic health care that the vast majority of women rely on. With this rule in place, any employer could decide that their employees no longer have health insurance coverage for birth control.
Were talking about a fundamental right -- to be able to decide whether and when you want to have children.
(Excerpt) Read more at plannedparenthood.org ...
If this is true, then President Trump is promoting pro-choice policies. An employer would have the choice to include the coverage or not include the coverage.
The headline is misinformation. I wish it covered all abortions, which some consider contraceptive services, but it doesn’t.
Your 1% sounds about right to me.
So who should determine the coverage that an employer is offering and paying for the government or the employer?
My point is that Planned Parenthood and Democrats that claim to be Pro-Choice are not really for choice. They want government mandates to force all insurers to have abortion coverage. They want to take away our choices. Listed below are just a few other examples where liberals want to limit choice.
Ban Guns
Ban Large Sodas
Ban Conservative Speakers
Ban Football
Ban “Merry Christmas”
Ban Christian Bakers
Ban Salaries below or above a certain amount
I even read recently they want to ban best friends because it can hurt the feelings of other students.
Choice creates diversity. Liberals don’t want diversity. They want everyone to think like them. If you don’t, they will pass a law against you.
I think a company should have the right to offer or not offer any benefit or salary. The government should not come between an employer and employee except for things that are in the national interest (i.e. illegal workers, illegal trades, fraud)
I paid for my own birth control, different generation of health care didn’t cover such stuff; then did the sane thing and had my tubes tied after the second C-Section.
Same goes for Men’s Viagra drugs, I don’t want to pay for that freebie either.
ALL OF YOU BUY YOUR OWN!
It’s the beginning of what should be understood.
O.K. Roe-v-Wade says abortion cannot be banned outright.
But that’s the end of the “right” - it cannot be legally banned outright.
That imposes NOT Constitutional mandate that the government, or anyone who opposes abortion, must be financially or operationally responsible, directly for helping you get an abortion. You can go to a provider willing to do it, within the law - end of your “right”. How it is paid for is not a requirement that can be imposed on anyone, and particularly not on the government or an unwilling person, or entity in any capacity. Yes, an employer’s insurance could financially support it, but the employer cannot be required to have the insurance plan support it.
That’s how it SHOULD BE understood and how we have to move the courts to agree that’s how it should be understood.
Planned Parenthood is not concerned about Cancer Patients who get no help with the price of their medicine, or Heart Patients who also get no help with their medicine, or Diabetics, etc. who do not get free medicine, but want free pills for people who want to fool around with sex. Real nice organization, the ACLU!
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