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US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate
theodp writes "First approved for contraceptive use in the U.S. in 1960, 'The Pill' is currently used by more than 100 million women worldwide and by almost 12 million women in the U.S. But just hours before the Affordable Care Act was to go into effect, Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a stay temporarily blocking a mandate requiring health insurance coverage of birth control, and gave the Obama administration until Friday to respond to the Supreme Court on the matter. Sotomayor's order applies to a group of nuns, the Little Sisters of the Poor, and other Roman Catholic nonprofit groups that use the same health plan, known as the Christian Brothers Employee Benefit Trust (PDF). The group is one of many challenging the federal requirement for contraceptive coverage, but a decision on the merits of that case by the full Supreme Court could have broader implications. One imagines Melinda Gates is none too pleased. So, will U.S. health care require a Department of Personal Belief Exemptions that are dictated by employers (PDF, 'The Trustees of CBEBT and the management of Christian Brothers Services are dedicated to protecting the employers participating in the CBEBT from having to face the choice of violating their faith or violating the law')?"
You either have healthcare or you don't. No picking and choosing what procedures or medications fit your chosen lifestyle.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
It gets better,
They want to block nuns access to contraceptives but are willing to give the priests viagra.
Christians are filled with nothing but hypocritical double standards.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
"Women have a right to have control over their own bodies."
Really? Forcing other people (including other women) to pay for birth control for other women doesn't sound like you want women to control "their own bodies" to me.
You are a fucking retard.
BTW, forcing me to pay for your cancer meds when I do not have cancer and never will get cancer is not ethical. You fucking Christ-fags are everything which is wrong with America. Do as I say, not as I do. Hate they neighbor if he is not like me. You are a piece of shit.