Posted on 07/10/2014 8:38:40 AM PDT by PoloSec
It hasn't even been two weeks since the US supreme court's Hobby Lobby decision – a depressing reminder of how regressive America remains on issues of gender and sexuality – and already Democrats are firing the first shots in what's sure to be a new front in 2014's definitive battle for women's votes.
This week, Senators Mark Udall (D-CO) and Patty Murray (D-WA) have outlined legislation that would bar employers from banning coverage for contraception – essentially overturning the Hobby Lobby ruling. After a Senate vote as early as next week, any such bill is sure to fail in the Republican-controlled House. Then comes the real test: Are Democrats willing to work on women's health with the same vigor with which they've so quickly revived it as a political issue?
The GOP is digging an even deeper hole with women than they did in 2012: denying women access to birth control is almost certainly going to be the Republicans' legacy of idiocy heading into 2016, especially given that, at any given time, about 25% of reproductive-age women are using hormonal contraceptives or intrauterine devices, the two methods at issue in the case. (Studies show that 88% of women will use one of those methods of birth control in their lifetimes.)
Democrats aren't wasting any time making sure that the GOP's anti-contraception reputation sticks. Udall – whose Colorado seat is seen as vulnerable – said in a statement that "women should never have to ask their bosses for a permission slip to access common forms of birth control or other critical health services". Murray said, "I hope Republicans will join us to revoke this court-issued license to discriminate and return the right of Americans to make their own decisions, about their own health care and their own bodies." Sure she does.
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Only slightly worse!
I am wondering if the Supreme Court did not rule that way in order to foment all this war on women crap before the election. The media is doing its part by not differentiating between contraception and abortifacients.
It’s truly strange times we find ourselves in isn’t it?
The very thought that someone could suggest that it’s the employers’ *responsibility*, not just perk, but *responsibility* to provide any and all forms of birth control to their female employees, is ludicrous. Not even 20 years ago this thought never would have crossed any pol’s mind as a possible campaign strategy.
But here we are today. This society has become so perverse in its values and so crippled in its ability to critically think, I don’t know if we can ever come back.
Health *benefits* from an employer are just that *benefits*. They aren’t “rights”. Sheesh!!! They are part of a *compensation package*. They are part of one’s salary!
The following is a perfect example of this inanity: “My employer won’t buy my lunch at my lunch break. He’s denying me access to food”.
It’s outrageous, fallacious and dangerous to be even entertaining this tom foolish buggery!
What’s next, people are going to start saying, “How dare employers deny people access to money”?
Becaise that’s *exactly* how ludicrous this notion is, for the exact same reason!!!
That’s lame. It’s not like the GOP finally hired Eminem for campaign songs.
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