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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen.Reid: If the Supreme Court will not protect women’s access to health care, then Democrats Will
http://www.reid.senate.gov/press_releases/2014-30-06-reid-statement-on-supreme-court-decision-denying-women-the-right-to-make-their-own-health-care-decisions#.U7F_Lhab2RBNevada Senator Harry Reid released the following statement today after the Supreme Court ruled in a5-4 decision that private employers may deny women critical preventive health care and family planning services:
Todays decision jeopardizes womens access to essential health care. Employers have no business intruding in the private health care decisions women make with their doctors. This ruling ignores the scientific evidence showing that the health security of millions of American women is strengthened by access to these crucial services.
If the Supreme Court will not protect womens access to health care, then Democrats will. We will continue to fight to preserve womens access to contraceptive coverage and keep bosses out of the examination room.
Under Obamacare, more women in America are gaining access to quality, affordable care. Women are no longer discriminated against or charged higher premiums for simply being women. Millions of women in America, and thousands in Nevada, have gained access to free preventive care, like contraception, that was not available to them before.
The bottom line is that todays decision is wrong for women. Your boss should never be able to make your health care decisions for you.
https://twitter.com/SenatorReid
Reid on #HobbyLobby ...todays decision is wrong for women. Your boss should never be able to make your health care decisions for you.
https://twitter.com/Crossfire/status/483633868340494336
littlemissmartypants
(22,418 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)And tax the churches because you know the likes of Cardinal Dolans will be crowing over this one.
riqster
(13,986 posts)They object to paying for women's health care? OK. I have a religious objection to paying taxes to support those freeloading hypocrites.
edhopper
(33,213 posts)he might be the minority leader in November,
Because voters can't add 2+2.
liberal from boston
(856 posts)The rulings by the 5 conservative Supreme Court Judges will result in a Republican backlash from American voters & Democratic. Independent, Women voters will come out in historic numbers this November!!!
redqueen
(115,096 posts)calimary
(80,700 posts)If enough of US get discouraged and give up, the team that refuses ever to give up will win. And so far, OURS doesn't always have the gumption to be that kind of team.
If ours is this: - then we're sunk.
JustAnotherGen
(31,688 posts)But I believe its too late.
Last year it started with gutting the VRA - and it goes to this - and now look what they have done to Unions.
We are in a nightmare. The dystopia is now.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)Before this case, did it ever occur to anyone to consider what Hobby Lobby's position on birth control was? Why are we in a position where that question is even relevant?
It's because we are now begging multiple heartless corporations for our healthcare--first our employer, then their insurance company, then the hospital, then the pharmacy, etc. etc.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Not the same situation, but close enough.
calimary
(80,700 posts)The menfolk have never faced obstacles like the ones we women have had to fight and resist and overcome - seemingly forever. Maybe it's time they found out how it feels.
Glitterati
(3,182 posts)he can't get ANY bill passed. Much less something like this.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)by reminding women that Republicans just turned their boss into their pastor. Shortly before the midterm elections.
Glitterati
(3,182 posts)don't give me much hope.
We've been down this road many times, and women's issues ONLY matter to men when they need us to win elections. Then, after the win, we're told to go sit in the corner and wait our turn while the MEN handle the important things.
Yeah, NOT.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)Yeah, NOT.
Because there is never another election. It's only this one coming up. So they don't need to worry about the election after.
And sitting on your hands instead of voting will make it work soooooooo much better so much faster.
So what, specifically, have Democrats failed to do on "women's issues" in the last few years? And keep in mind Republican obstruction is not caused by Democrats.
Glitterati
(3,182 posts)telling this "stupid" woman not to worry her pretty little head while the MEN take care of important matters.
Excuse me, while I go throw up.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)Glitterati
(3,182 posts)Sorry.
You've made yourself abundantly clear about what you think of my opinion.
I'll waste no more time on you.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)Hardly. You made a stupid post. Brilliant people with wonderful ideas can make stupid posts.
Again, you're free to show me just how right you are by listing some specific failures caused by Democrats. Then I look like the idiot.
Glitterati
(3,182 posts)get that?
Stupid, sorry, not quite stupid enough to bother having an attempted debate with you.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)sheshe2
(83,355 posts)Now it's time for us to vote.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)What is the impediment to opening up the rolls of Medicare to everyone? Why would it take an act of Congress to do it? Why could it not be bureaucratic? Especially if it is show to deficit neutral which it is.
riqster
(13,986 posts)Thus only changeable via legislative means, or cancelable by judicial action.
Executive orders are limited by the Constitution.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)I wish the Democrats would push hard for a change. But with so many beholden to lobbying $$, I doubt it.
riqster
(13,986 posts)Damned if I know how, though, since it's now considered "free speech" to buy politicians.
But I do think that organizations and celebrities like Colbert are pretty much the only way to reach people without the scads of rich old man cash. EW is doing it right, by getting her message out early before the money machine gets going on her.
I think many young people are worried about climate change and the environment, so getting all the organizations who support that together might help. School loans, contraception, ERA, these are all great ways to speak to their self-interest. We should use the same game plan the gay community used because they have been incredibly successful in educating people on the issues and positive messaging such as inclusion, joyful pride parades and how the issue is love, not sin as the right tried to label it. Many people who were not affected got involved. We often just frame our issues as a response to the right (because we are often so gobsmacked they would stoop so low) instead of in a positive way. What is the Democratic vision of the future? What is the vision of how our country should work?
But the right is way ahead of us. They realized they had a very powerful recruitment/soap box with the churches. If you look at the Hobby Lobby facebook page, you will see lots of women saying they support HL and go Jesus! The left has to set out its ground game and really talk to people. Obama was good for getting people out to vote the first time, but that has basically fallen apart with young people feeling betrayed and cynical. We need to try to educate as much as possible because the lies that are being spread by the right are a fast-growing malignancy.
Cha
(295,929 posts)women who want BC.. and the older women want it too. It's the Law until the smug 5 old men decided their religion trumps the Law. fucking 5. Yeah, Dems and repubs are the same, stupids.
thanks cal