Dragonlady
Designing Woman
What an idiot.Incorrect, it was the wrong decision.Much ado about nothing.Well, it happened: The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that U.S. employers can refuse to provide their employees with insurance coverage for contraception under the Affordable Care Act because of the eloyer’s religious or moral objection. This decision potentially deprives over 126,000 people of the option to get their birth control method of choice through their employer-provided health insurance coverage. If you’re one of the people affected by this decision, you’re probably wondering how you can avoid paying exorbitant out-of-pocket fees for your birth control method of choice, and/or how you’re going to renew your prescription without the aid of your doctor’s office.
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Where to get contraceptives after your employer (and the Supreme Court) refuses to give them to you
Well, it happened: The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that U.S. employers can refuse to provide their employees with insurance coverage for contraception under the Affordable Care Act because of the employer’s religious or moral objection. This decision...www.dailykos.com
A public service announcement for normal people, A kick in the balls to religious and political nutjobs.
If you work for a religious organization that opposes the use of contraceptives (1-2% of the workforce?) you simply have to pay retail prices.
If you work for a secular organization that doesn't care one way or another (98-99% of the workforce?) this doesn't impact you in the slightest.
The United States Supreme Court has determined that it is unlawful to force people to violate their legitimate and long-held religious principles.
It was the correct determination.
Don't like it?
Change jobs.
Or shut-the-phukk-up and pay retail prices for your contraceptives.
Whatever.
The ruling is actually the further erosion of the Framers’ mandate that church and state remain separate behind the façade of ‘religious liberty’ – where in fact no ‘religious liberty’ was in jeopardy, as affording reproductive health services to employees of religious employers in no manner infringes on the religious beliefs of those entities; employees alone would use the services, not the employers.
Moreover, the number of employees adversely effected, no matter how small, has no bearing on the issue – just as ‘find another job’ is in no manner a valid ‘solution.’
Yes you are, but stupid cannot be fixed.