"Eternal vigilance is the price of—birth control?"

[Sparkly]

"The Nonprofiteer" is a lawyer and blogger who specializes in nonprofits, but writes well about law and public policy of all kinds.

She has a great way of cutting to the chase.

An excerpt from today:

Hospitals and universities affiliated with religious groups aren’t exempt from the Civil Rights Act. As a result, they’re required to provide health care to women as well as men. Birth control is an essential part of health care for women—a fact you’d think most people would concede, as it’s a way of preventing the abortions they’re so horrified by.

The largest Catholic university in the country already provides birth control as part of its health plan. 28 states already require hospitals and universities to provide this minimum standard of care. If your employer dictates your health plan, and your health plan dictates where you get care—as most plans do—you may be sent to a Catholic hospital regardless of your own beliefs. Why isn’t it a violation of your religious freedom to be denied the care you need based on someone else’s dogma?

http://nonprofiteer.net/2012/02/10/eternal-vigilance-is-the-price-of-birth-control/[div]

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1. how quaint, thinking that freedom for peons matter.

freedom is for corporations and really, really rich people, silly!

freedom for peons is an infringment on the freedom of corporations and really, really rich people, so it is the proper role of government to protect the freedoms of corporations and really, really rich people by keeping the peons under control.

[LiberalLoner]

2. It all boils down to - are women people? Or objects to be owned, property?

For many decades, for thousands of years, for millions of years I guess, women have been simply property. We have been seen as deserving fewer rights than animals in the field.

It has only been very recently that this has changed, that women have been allowed to have some rights. Since the 1960's in fact.

This is about stripping those rights from women and returning them to the status of property with no right to make choices about their own bodies or anything else for that matter. Something less than slaves.

[Larkspur]

3. If women incorporate themselves, can we then be called persons?

I find it hypocritical that these bishops who did their darnest to cover up the pedophile priest scandal are taken seriously about denying women's reproductive rights based upon their religious beliefs.