Wireless Contraception

Kittenman writes: The BBC is carrying information on a type of contraception (funded in part by Bill Gates) that takes the form of a microchip, inserted under the skin. The chip releases contraceptive hormones to the body until wirelessly advised not to do so. This device has several interesting applications and issues associated with it. The researchers are already working on making the device secure against unauthorized transmissions. There's also the issue of making it easier for governments to control population levels. The chip will be available from 2018. This correspondent will watch the issues with interest.

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yes but

[halfEvilTech]

I bet Hobby Lobby will make sure it isn't covered... Afterall we can't have a corporations err person's religious rights trampled on.

Re:yes but

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah...I wondered how long a complete and total misunderstanding of the ruling would surface. Get a law degree, then get your head out of your ass, maybe you'll learn something.

Re:yes but

[Rockoon]

"I'm not denying treatment, I'm denying payment."

Hobby Lobby denies neither, proving that you are one of those hyper-reactionary liberals that doesnt know what went down. The employees of Hobby Lobby continue to have the liberty to consume drugs such as Plan B. What they dont have is the liberty to force their employer to pay for their Plan B.

Lots of things arent part of an employees compensation package. Even such necessities as food and shelter, but somehow in the liberal mind Plan B is so much more important than food and shelter that employers must pay for it specifically.

Shows us where the liberal priorities lie... the murder of what they have unscientifically dehumanized is top priority. I guess if the liberty of the unborn human isnt important, than why should anybody elses liberty be important.

Re:Hmm

[benjfowler]

It's really easy. Stop paying people to have kids. And bring in changes to turn kids from assets into liabilities -- works everywhere.

You'll get the usual left-wing hand-wringing about "child poverty" and "overcrowding" -- but the only people who are "overcrowded", are conservative Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslims who can't keep their reactionary, undereducated dicks to themselves.

Re:Hormones screw up women's bodies to much.

[Rockoon]

This is, of course, assuming the end goal is limiting unwanted pregnancies.

Doesnt matter what the motives are...what will it actually be used for?

Planned Parenthood chipping up as many poor people as they can, perhaps?

Re:but he already knows

[Anonymous Coward]

He needs to know how to read. Specifically he needs to read the court's decision in this case because what he's spouting is total ignorance of what was really decided and why.

Removing his head from where the sun don't shine would help too, but only as far as it might make it possible to READ THE DECISION.

Re:yes but...yes in fact.

[OakDragon]

I'd boycott Hobby Lobby, but we never shop there anyway...

Why don't you boycott the Supreme Court? That's what I've been recommending to all my liberal/progressive friends.