You hear that, Marge? Mr. 0bama wants to make sure we have access to birth control.
Posted on 07/11/2015 9:29:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The federal government today released a new rule to ensure that women will have birth control coverage in their health insurance, even if they work for closely held for-profit companies that have a religious objection to contraception.
The rule follows the Supreme Court’s decision last year that Hobby Lobby and other closely held corporations could not be required to provide contraceptive coverage to their female employees, even though that coverage is guaranteed under the Affordable Care Act.
“Today’s guidance is a positive development for women denied access to important healthcare in the troubling aftermath of the Hobby Lobby ruling,” said Brigitte Amiri, senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union’s Reproductive Freedom Project. “Invocations of religion shouldn’t be used as a smokescreen to allow employers to treat their female employees like second-class citizens. That’s why an accommodation was never necessary in the first place.”
The rule allows companies to fill out and send a form stating their religious objection to their insurance company or the federal government. The insurance company can then provide the coverage directly to the employees — a process similar to that already in place for nonprofits with such objections.
The rule, however, makes this accommodation available to an overly broad group of companies, going beyond what was required by the Supreme Court’s decision in Hobby Lobby. As a result, strong oversight and enforcement is needed to ensure that the many women who are employed by companies that use the accommodation have access to seamless coverage.
“Although we are disappointed that today’s rule opens up the accommodation to even more for-profit organizations, we applaud the federal government for ensuring women receive contraception coverage, regardless of where they work,” Amiri said. “We will continue to advocate for federal legislation that would restore the ACA’s contraceptive coverage guarantee that was weakened by the Supreme Court’s decision in Hobby Lobby.”
For more information on how religion is being used to discriminate: https://www.aclu.org/issues/religious-liberty/using-religion-discriminate
Is the American Civil Liberties Union EVER in favor of freedom, and not just for more government control of Christians and other religious believers and Conservatives?
The DemocRAT Party. The Party of Death. You have to wonder how much longer they can last when they abort future ‘RATS and engage in sexual behavior that doesn’t result in babies.
So from now on employers must provide abstinence training? It is the only fool proof method, works every time it is tried.
You hear that, Marge? Mr. 0bama wants to make sure we have access to birth control.
New “rule” eh?
I wonder how many “rules” the media will allow the next President to make.
OBAMA WANTS ONLY ONE RULE; ONE RULE.
I am for socialism, disarmament and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is, of course, the goal.Why would an organization so founded ever be in favor of freedom, or be on the side of Christianity or US conservatism?
— Roger Nash Baldwin, ACLU founder
My advice to employers. Don’t hire women.
Some Supreme court decisions are the “law of the land” and others apparently are not. There is no rule of law if the President ignores or does not enforce laws he dislikes.
You can get condoms at the 99 cent store. What more is needed?
How can this possibly be legal?
This administration continues to give the finger to the separation of powers, the rule of law, and the just about everything else that conflicts with their whims.
And, of course, Congress will play lap dog, and do not one damn thing about it.
I’m pretty big on the free market.
If your employer’s group insurance doesn’t cover birth control...get your own danged insurance that does cover it.
Of course I am living in the past, evidently.
It is just another usurpation of power. It is pointless to argue tangential effects. It only plays into the hands of the usurpers.
Unless/until they are post menopausal.
“Birth control” is a misnomer. “Pregnancy prevention” is more accurate. Neither are good insofar as the command to be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it, has not been suspended by any means. It has only been turned on its head for a short time, as witnessed by these efforts to control what, when, and where life is to be found. To the utter chagrin of those who reject God and his Word, marriage and family goes on, and will do so till the end of time as we know it.
Invocations of religion shouldn’t be used as a smokescreen to allow Americans to violate the religous or iireligious beliefs of others. That’s why an accommodation was never necessary in the first place.
Therefore, if a family or member from another culture or relgious beliefs have imperatives, theh will be allowed mercy killings, alterations of female genetilia and so forth...”
Fixed
I can’t wait for the push back. It’s going to be legendary.
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