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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Hobby Lobby does not object to covering male employees’ costs for vasectomies."
In the Hobby Lobby case, even if the court finds the company has a right to enact workplace policies based on the owners religious beliefs, it still has to weigh whether the governments decision to have employee health plans pay for birth control takes precedence over companies religious objections.
Business pundits say that although Hobby Lobby might win the case, it could tarnish the companys brand as anti-woman and politically divisive. Hobby Lobby does not object to covering male employees costs for vasectomies.
emsimon33
(3,128 posts)Mass
(27,315 posts)as abortion.
Of course, this is BS. We all know that Plan B and IUD are not abortion, but this is their argument.
Frankly, it would be nice if people could actually listen to the argument and answer to it, and not to a different argument. This may be more useful.
As for Hobby Lobby, this is one of the few stores I have felt uncomfortable trying to buy something and I left. I do like to be aggressed by heavy propaganda when I shop for beads. So, I left and never came back.
This ruling is also a strong argument to get rid of employer funded healthcare and for some type of personal cradle to death system that could be financed partly by taxes.
Coexist
(24,542 posts)to a discrimination lawsuit that would allow medicaid for all women - but who knows.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)But I guess Scalia is no believer in science, either.
No more Catholics on the Supreme Court, ever.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)that sell birth control pills...
This is nothing but the religious right pushing their version of Sharia Law.
joeglow3
(6,228 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)So presumably they have no issue with vasectomies because this procedure prevents a sperm ever reaching an egg.
I don't agree with them but I assume this is their line of reasoning.
Coexist
(24,542 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)it becomes a welfare moocher.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)So apparently they aren't anti-contraceptive, they're just anti-women. I wonder if a sex discrimination suit can be filed?
Coexist
(24,542 posts)LiberalLoner
(9,761 posts)If not, isn't that discriminatory?
progressoid
(49,988 posts)Says so in the Bible.
LiberalLoner
(9,761 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)nor do they mind buying their garbage from a country that forces abortions