NH House passes birth control exemption

[rug]

By Norma Love
Associated Press
March 7, 2012

CONCORD, N.H.—While the issue of birth control coverage plays out nationally, New Hampshire's Republican-controlled House voted Wednesday to allow employers with religious objections to exclude contraceptive coverage from their health plans.

The House voted 196-150 to send the bill to the GOP-dominated Senate after a floor debate in which Republican House Speaker William O'Brien at one point threatened to empty the House gallery when bill opponents cheered as arguments were made against the bill.

The measure's fate in the Senate is uncertain. Gov. John Lynch, a Democrat, has not said if he would veto the bill.

"The governor has serious concerns about the bill. Our current law is working well," Lynch spokesman Colin Manning said Wednesday.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2012/03/07/nh_house_considers_birth_control_exemption/

[Mopar151]

1. Bully O' Brien strikes again

Gov. Lynch is hoping this will die in the Senate, but he'll kill it if it reaches his desk.

[cbayer]

2. Can this over-ride the rules promulgated by HHS regarding the Affordable Care Act?

[rug]

5. Good question.

Normally federal law preempts state law.

[Swede Atlanta]

3. How stupid is this?

If you are religious and opposed to birth control then don't' use it BUT if you are an employer you cannot cram your stupid views on others. I mean the world is over populated as it is. We can't feed the people we have. We can't stop sex but we can provide the means for people to control the timing of their own families and their pro-creative choices.

God these Repukkkes are enough to make me think I should buy my first firearm for self-defense. They are seriously making me nervous.

[Walk away]

4. The far right christians quietly take over the United States...

American women are the first casualties.

[atreides1]

6. Far Right Christians

Should meet the same fate as other tyrants and dictators...

[TheMastersNemesis]

7. Solution

Are you talking the Roman solution?

[Walk away]

8. Or a very long vacation in Argentina? nt

[dmallind]

9. You mean giving Christians full control and seeing their civilization crumble within a few decades

That Roman "solution"?