Why Women Aren't People (But Corporations Are)

[n2doc]

by Erin Gloria Ryan

Earlier today, five men agreed that closely held corporations with anti-birth control religious beliefs cannot be required to provide contraceptive coverage to female employees. Corporations are people, my friend. Women? Not so much.

The decision to declare women Unpeople was a narrow one; the five men agreed that corporations (people) shouldn't be able to use Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby to justify discriminating against anyone except women (lesser people-ish entities), and won't be able to use it to deny other health care besides contraception. The same religious exemption to the Affordable Care Act that applies to nonprofit organizations also applies to for-profit companies controlled by a small group of people who think birth control is black magic. This ruling applies to whore pills only. Not to blood transfusions, AIDS retrovirals, vaccines, treating infections caused by getting a SATAN RULES tattoo with an infected needle at an unsafe tattoo parlor, antibiotics purchased to fight off a nasty case of the clap caught while raw dogging a stranger in a bar bathroom. Just birth control. No matter why a woman needs it.

The five men also agreed that their ruling only applies to corporations (people) with "sincerely held" religious beliefs. You know, the kind of religious beliefs that are so sincerely anti-birth control that they invest in and profit from companies that manufacture birth control. The kind of religious beliefs that cite as justification for their beliefs a series of religious texts written before Western Medicine as we know it existed.

If corporations are people then why can't I punch one in the fucking face?
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http://jezebel.com/why-women-arent-people-but-corporations-are-1598061808

[benld74]

1. The kind of religious beliefs that have/are

caused the majoriy of the wars across the face of this globe, the kind of religious beliefs that cite as justification for their beliefs a series of religious texts written before the majority of humanity could even write or read the written words, the kind of religious beliefs that constantly fuel hate and bigotry across the world just because some other human being does not believe what the minority believes, the kind of religious beliefs that make history repeat itself ad naseum.

[MisterP]

3. 7% ain't no majority

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_war#Criteria_for_classification

[brer cat]

2. Excellent, n2doc.

Thanks for sharing. K&R

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, n2doc.

[calimary]

5. I recently heard a good one: "I won't believe corporations are people until Texas executes one."

[Hekate]

6. Thank you, n2doc. This is a sad, sad day. nt