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In reply to the discussion: No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. [View all]kcr
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No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. [View all]
Playinghardball
Dec 2013
OP
Prior to the mandate this was never an issue. The mandate created this mess.
Nuclear Unicorn
Dec 2013
#5
Not everyone with a potential conscience exception does business in CA.
Nuclear Unicorn
Dec 2013
#16
Actually, including birth control as a part of health insurance is, for many women, a health issue.
JDPriestly
Dec 2013
#89
Then it has obviously failed spectacularly to achieve its stated objective. n/t
Nuclear Unicorn
Dec 2013
#13
because right wing assholes are fighting it? what's your solution - roll over and take it?
ZRT2209
Dec 2013
#14
I want employers out of the business of influencing whether or not I have access to BC.
Nuclear Unicorn
Dec 2013
#18
Based on your previously unqualified declaration my response was on the mark.
Nuclear Unicorn
Dec 2013
#27
Exactly. They're no more paying for birth control then they are paying for colonoscopies.
kcr
Dec 2013
#74
No, the insurance companies declare birth control to be a part of health care.
Half-Century Man
Dec 2013
#113
Since I've previously refuted your past effort to employ this straw man argument
Nuclear Unicorn
Dec 2013
#75
Please show me the pre-mandate court cases where an employer could interefere
Nuclear Unicorn
Dec 2013
#28
"Otherwise, we'd still have child labor, with little bodies working in the coal mines."
Nuclear Unicorn
Dec 2013
#48
"They didn't need the courts before, they could just exclude BC if they wanted to."
Nuclear Unicorn
Dec 2013
#56
It is about time someone said that. The rethugs continue to try to establish their theocracy while
jwirr
Dec 2013
#24
Just returned to my office and saw all of the comments concerning this post...
Playinghardball
Dec 2013
#45
Why don't you edit it to state that while the quote certainly expresses the President's opinion
grantcart
Dec 2013
#66
Don't you think that folks on this board already know that it expresses the President's opinion?
Playinghardball
Dec 2013
#73
The issue is that it is presented as a direct quote which appears to be a misattribution.
grantcart
Dec 2013
#79
This isn't a conservative website - it's fact-based! If this isn't an exact quote the thread ...
JEFF9K
Dec 2013
#46
You mean, someone might think the president thinks women should have access to birth control?
kcr
Dec 2013
#109
Wow, surely our President's statement on basis rights will be received as heretical and pure heresy
indepat
Dec 2013
#81
Which does not say that I am the one who alerted, nor was I the one. Why would you
merrily
Dec 2013
#106