Missouri Lawmakers Override Governor’s Veto Of Bill Allowing Employers To Deny Access To Birth Contr

We all have to live under the Catholic Church's rules now. You cannot leave the Catholic Church if you want to.

I'm thinking ladies need to take control over this shit and they need to do it NOW.



Laura

a conservative male friend was ranting about the Sandra Fluke & birth control. I asked him - if women don't have birth control who are men going to fornicate with? Each other?? Shut. Him. Down.

...who thinks he has the right to slander Sandra Fluke because of her testimony.

we would just need to add women to it.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Women and Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men and Women, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind and womankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--

These employees are now subject to their employer's "religious" or "moral" whims. Any list of employers (beside the Church, obviously) for this vote?

EDIT: so won't federal laws take the place of this, i.e., leaving the employer out of the loop for this coverage (see: http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/February/States-Join-Fight-against-Birth-Control-Mandate/)?

nt

Just wondering....

Yet another wake up call to women who thought they might skip voting this year.

Ladies, they are climbing up in your "business." Do you REALLY want them there?







Laura

What will the voting electorate do about this?

…Elect more Republicans?

doesn't believe in xyz so should not cover it.

This is such bullshit.

Is this the camel with its nose in the tent to try and defeat Obamacare?

I would have just said that the employer's rules are the rules and that the employee should just work somewhere else if employer lacks adequate health coverage. Kind of like "Crappy boss? Go work somewhere else!"

But as a progressive I realize that employees DO have rights! This Missouri law is just like those misnamed conscience bills that let pharmacies refuse to supply contraceptives. Would any state legislature even approach a similar bill to the one in MO if the lobbying came from Jews, Muslims, or even Wiccans? HELL NO!

SO much is wrong with this new law I would also compare it with letting employers get employees' facebook passwords.

The Repukes and Baggers want to tell you EXACTLY what to do! Period.

And if you think that this does not affect you, there WILL be other things that will...being a woman, WILL return to being a Pre-Existing Condition! Face it...

You should be in the streets by the hundreds of thousands in Missouri.

p.s....

Pastor Martin Niemöller 14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984

“THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.

THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.

THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.”

Missouri voters will wake up enough to vote for McCaskill and then get busy enough to vote every last one of these women-haters out of office.

Repukes will still vote for him even though they will not openly support him

I fervently hope that enough Dems and Independents vote so that McCaskill takes the seat.