Discussion for article #224542
if the President does that, the next thing you know the crazies will demonize it as ogynocare
#StopOgynocareNow
#benghazi
#chemtrails
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Get out your tinfoil tampons!
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Since when does the SCOTUS offer fixes. That is the job of the legislative branch of government.
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The SCOTUS says the gov’t can pick up the tab? FUKKEMM!!!
The court has often noted, when saying something can’t be done, guidelines for crafting language more narrowly so as to fit within the boundaries of its ruling. That’s not new.
“You can’t do it that way. You could maybe do it this way, or this other way, but you can’t do it that way.”
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Provided that it can demonstrated that the religious objector is indeed not paying for the birth control (that it is not just a case of money shifting and accounting tricks), then this would seem like the way to go.
As a result, Insurance companies will suddenly become religious.
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So SCROTUS is ok with government involvement in healthcare.
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Insurance companies would rather pay for pills than babies.
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That’s nice and all, but why should the taxpayers pick up the cost for this just because these christian nut jobs want to be assholes? Last night I had some dick tell me on FB that getting birth control was a “lifestyle” choice. I’ve about had it with all of them.
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If you think outlawing ALL birth control isn’t next on their agenda, you need to think again. They will indeed demonize the fix.
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My tax dollars go to pay for wars I’ve objected to and tax breaks I think are ridiculous as well as subsidies I’m opposed to. Many people of faith have a religious opposition to war and yet they’re not able to opt out of defense spending. These people have been more than accommodated and are now complaining about filing out a form opting out of the birth control that many of them already provided.
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If you think that Obama administration is going to take executive action on this anytime soon, you’re nuts. Let the Repubs and the conservatives on the SupCo take some grief for a while. This is something likely to motivate the Dem base to vote in 2014 so why even think about resolving it before November. Pass a bill in the Senate, send it to the House and see what happens. Let the conservatives eat their own again.
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SCOTUS Offers Obama A Way To Fix Birth Control Coverage Gap
Better would be fixing the SCOTUS Sanity Gap
Alito, Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Kennedy are America’s No. 1 enemies. They are destroying this country.
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Not sure I agree with the Supreme Court offering work arounds when they rule.
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It is, though! I mean if you suffer from very heavy, painful periods which could be relieved by the hormones in BC, you are choosing a lifestyle that allows you to not have to miss work 5-7 days a month. If you have endometriosis and choose a lifestyle of living pain-free by taking BC, again, that’s a lifestyle choice. If you have a family history of certain types of cancer then it’s of course a lifestyle choice to take the hormones that would help drastically reduce your chances of getting cancer. BC is a lifestyle choice much the same as treating back pain or prostate cancer is a lifestyle choice. The difference is that those lifestyle choices aren’t considered choices.
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Just expand the accommodation. It sounds like even Alito is cool with using it and it may survive a challenge. Besides, Congress won’t pass anything until at least 2017 and their fix might be worse.
Sounds the like Supremes just endorsed Universal health care. Cool by me.
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It just shows how political Alito’s opinion was. It wasn’t about the rule of law. Those five old men knew what they were doing and are trying to couch it in terms to keep the level of criticism to a minimum. Really, religious faith now trumps compelling interest. This is like the Catholics going after Galileo for declaring that the earth revolves around the sun. Ginsburg called them out and wrote a dissent that had to do with the rule of law not the politics of religious freedom. So now we have to ask every company in the u.s. what domination they belong to. Great.
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