[Last Dakotan]

I asked my machinists the other day since I’m now responsible for their contraception if it was OK if I just put a box of rubbers next to the Band-aids...

[Lady Lucky]

Breeder bogeyman!

While Santorum is not my favorite candidate, I find this commentary strikingly dishonest.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”He was talking, of course, about the Obama administration's recent decisions first to force large religious employers to pay for birth control and “preventive services” (including sterilization and abortifacient drugs), and its subsequent decision to demand that the relevant insurance companies provide it for “free” instead.
The “accommodation” — the White House rightly refuses to call it a compromise — is a farce. If you're paying for health insurance — or if you self-insure, as many institutions do — shifting responsibilities to the insurance companies doesn't shift the costs, just the paperwork. A Catholic hospital would still pay for the services; there just wouldn't be a line item for it in the monthly insurance bill.
If anything, President Obama has made the situation worse. The White House fact sheet seems to offer no exemption at all for religious institutions — or for anyone else: “Under the new policy ... women will have free preventive care that includes contraceptive services no matter where she [sic] works.” That sounds like a complete win for the “Get Your Rosaries Off My Ovaries” crowd to me”....
Of course, if religious institutions don't want to violate their consciences, they can simply stop offering health insurance altogether (providing yet another example of how Obama misled voters when he promised that the Affordable Care Act wouldn't cause anyone to lose their current coverage). That would at least allow religious organizations to uphold their principles. The result, however, would be to force taxpayers to subsidize practices many find morally abhorrent. In other words, Obama’s solution is to make paying taxes a moral dilemma for many pro-lifers. “

While the WH admits they didn't compromise the MSM and supporting Democrats are telling independent women voters that Obama compromised and that Republicans are once again too extreme to accept it, in a ploy to get them to vote Democrat.

I guess if these institutions refuse to offer any health insurance then the employees go on medicaid which will provide the BC and the employer pays a small fine.

[Daveinyork]

I wonder if the next thing the health police do is force Muslims and Jews to feed ham to their kids.

[Daveinyork]

If they can get away with doing this, they can ban circumcisions. Something for my fellow Jews to contemplate.

[Rummyfan]

"It's not about contraception," thundered GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum. "It's about economic liberty. It's about freedom of speech. It's about freedom of religion. It's about government control of your lives. And it's got to stop!"

I'm glad Santorum at least is voicing this. Where the hell are Boehner and Kantor and McConnell? Speak up!

[CHEE]

A RIGHT - in the USA Constitution.
A BENEFIT - not in USA Constitution.

Congress, take heed.