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Daisy
Lv 5
Daisy asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 7 years ago

why is hobby lobby such a big thing? men have always had to buy condoms, why are women feeling so entitled to birth control?

how about I do me, and you do you - nobody expects other people to buy them shiz?

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  • Dana B
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    It's not about women being "entitled to birth control." Congress decided, as part of the Affordable Care Act, that it was good policy to require large employers to provide health insurance to their employees that covers certain forms of birth control, both because some women use some of these forms for medical reasons other than contraception and because it's good for society for women to have access to the most effective and reliable methods of preventing pregnancies they don't want to have, and some of these methods are expensive enough that without insurance coverage many women do not have access to them. What the issue with the Hobby Lobby decision is is the idea that corporations - because that's what Hobby Lobby is, a corporation - can not only have religious beliefs, but that those religious beliefs deserve enough weight to allow corporations the right to ignore generally applicable laws meant to benefit their employees and society as a whole. People aren't outraged because "women are entitled to birth control," they're outraged because if the corporation that issues your paycheck today can decide you don't deserve insurance coverage for birth control pills or an IUD because the owners of the corporation don't want to pay for coverage for it even though Congress thought it was a good idea for them to, what law will they be able to ignore at their employees' expense tomorrow?

  • 7 years ago

    They were told by Socialists like Nancy Pelosi and Hilary Rodham Clinton Rodham that it was their Right to have their abortion pills paid for.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Liberals need handout from the government just to survive!

  • wtinc
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    How about we all buy are own Health insurance and leave the business out of it. Problem solved. The the insurance companies would have to actually compete for your business and so would the Doctors and Hospitals.

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  • 7 years ago

    The "big picture" issue of the HL decision is that the Supreme Court has created a brand new field of law: Corporate Religion.

    For the first time EVER, for-profit corporations can now impose their religious beliefs on their employees. Birth control is only the start. The rights that people have under the law are now subject to the religious beliefs of their employer.

    Just another way the rich and powerful now have MORE CONTROL over the rest of us, and since it's based on an invisible voice in their head, I don't see how this can end well.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    How hilarious. You are probably not aware that some employers take contributions for health insurance right out of your salary and some dont. I don't know which hobby lobby is but I do know that all health insurance cover both men and women's birth control/ hormone therapy...ie testosterone and progesterone.

    If you pay for a product, why wouldn't you expect a product.

    I think I know the real issue here. Some people feel that they should just control women.

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