Posted on 06/30/2014 10:05:44 AM PDT by don-o
WASHINGTON (AP) The White House says women's health will be jeopardized by a Supreme Court's decision that allows corporations with religious objections to opt out of a requirement that they cover contraceptives.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday that women should make personal health decisions for themselves.
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All you offered was your own definition of need, which might seem like common sense to you, but who cares?
The more rational standard of treating a non-functioning, or malfunctioning body part or process seems adequate enough here.
No, it will not lead to your death. Neither does it really hinder anything but your pleasure. Oh God help that a man can’t have his sex. Monks and other good people have managed no ejaculation and they have lived long with no intervention.
Defecating with a colostomy bag is NOT natural and REQUIRES surgery - medical procedure.
There just is no comparison. Absurd.
“This is all about buying womens votes.”
absolutely! Hillary will be running on this decision, you can bet on it. How did Sotomayor and Ginsberg vote, as this may have some impact on Hillary’s ability to use this decision to sound the clarion for women’s rights being denied by those white-privileged men?
In nature, you would be dead meat walking with pain, or even having pain anywhere else or being visually or audibly impaired. Non-working male appendage has nothing to do with being able to live.
My sister died 2 years ago of a rare breast cancer and I myself have gone through gigantic tumor removal in the gut and then pulmonary embolism in the last year.
Excuse me for having little sympathy for something that is nothing but basically elective and getting it covered.
And that is the key to whether it is truly medical or not - 100% elective. Thus, it should not have any coverage. Any more than should BC pills (which incidentally are used for other more medical issues).
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