Using Contraception Could Soon Cost You Your Job In Missouri

[workinclasszero]

Using Contraception Could Soon Cost You Your Job In Missouri
By Natalie Dailey on June 19, 2017

Under this new Republican regime, reproductive rights are taking a hit left and right. Many states are limiting abortion rights and access to birth control. Women in Missouri may be facing another setback in their reproductive rights.

The Senate in Missouri just passed a bill that would legally allow hiring managers to discriminate against women who use birth control or women who have had abortions. The law also requires abortion clinics to meet the same standards as outpatient surgery centers.

Governor Eric Greitens said:

“We want to protect life. We want to defend life, and we want to promote a culture of life here in the state of Missouri.”

Currently, the state bans employers from discriminating against these women. However, this new law would repeal it.

http://www.liberalamerica.org/2017/06/19/using-contraception-soon-cost-job-missouri/

[niyad]

1. and the war on women continues to escalate!

[workinclasszero]

2. Republican sharia law

is on the march, for sure.

[niyad]

3. that is my question to the ones screaming about sharia --what the FUCK is the difference between

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them, and you reichwing religious whack jobs shoving your patriarchal, antiquated belief systems down our political throats?

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Jeebus?

Not sure what the difference is, myself.

The problem is our country was founded on NOT acknowledging religion, any religion.

The darlings on the right are confused on this one.

[workinclasszero]

9. But..but...

White Mormon Jesus himself handed down our constitution to the mostly unbelieving/atheist/deist founding fathers in person, don't you know?! (Fake news alert!)

Here's a pic to prove it!

[workinclasszero]

5. There is no difference

And I'm telling you this as a believer in Jesus.

The fake news republican jesus cult will burn us unbelievers at the stake just as quick as ISIS if given the power and they are dangerous close to having that power under their cult leader tRump and his damned party.

[niyad]

7. sadly, your post is absolutely correct. the only difference between them and sharia is

how far they have gone so far. once in completely control--the burning times will be nothing compared to what they will install.

[workinclasszero]

14. Has there ever been a religion of any kind with total political and civil power

that didn't murder their political opponents in the name of God?

There is a damn good reason for separation of church and state which many ignorant Americans may be learning the hard way, soon.

[niyad]

15. cannot think of any offhand.

[workinclasszero]

18. Me either

It's always been a horror show of innocents bloodshed, torture and death.

And its well on the way in Twitler's Amerika.

[liberalhistorian]

25. As a seminary student myself

(at a liberal, progressive, social-justice-oriented, pro-LGTB, pro-choice institution) I couldn't agree more. It's truly frightening. Several of our professors have been sounding this alarm for a long time and are now truly alarmed at the level of power these dangerous fundie theocrats have.

[3catwoman3]

31. It is more like they are trying to shove...

...their patriarchal, antiquated belief systems UP a different body part.

They can all go to hell.

[niyad]

34. a most excellent point.

[sarcasmo]

19. Republican Jesus controlling women.

[Coventina]

6. Are they going to "promote a culture of life" by giving women paid time off to take care of all

their babies?

No? I didn't think so.

[workinclasszero]

20. No because as soon as the baby is born

"Pro-life" republicans could care less if it dies of hunger in a ditch with no health care or shelter.

MAGA baby!

[Jacquette]

8. & the obv question is:

How on earth are they going to monitor a woman's birth control?

[bettyellen]

11. How are they not going to discriminate in hiring knowing the state is promoting pregnancy like this?

[REP]

10. This is a violation of HIPAA

Employers and landlords have no right to your medical records or to ask you about your medical history; you have no duty to answer or answer truthfully when asked such questions.

This bill will cost the State of Missouri at lot of money to defend and they will lose.

[cwydro]

12. How in hell would they know?

[Ilsa]

33. You're married, and haven't gotten pregnant in awhile.

You must be using birth control!

You could always spout off something about NFP, if you're worried the boss is getting too close.

[zipplewrath]

13. Include Viagra

Propose an amendment to include Viagra, and condoms. See how long the bill lasts.

[WillowTree]

16. What is the name or bill number of this bill?

[leftyladyfrommo]

17. If you work for Hobby Lobby maybe.

Work places here aren't that repressive. Most Catholic women have been using birth control for years.

I don't know about the super right wingers.You just have to stay away from those companies. Most people wouldn't want to work there anywsy. It isn't a good work environment for non right wingers. And there are way more conventional companies here anyway.

[gratuitous]

21. I don't know . . .

Sometimes the only way to find out how hard it's raining is to close up the umbrella. Right now, with legal restrictions in place, most work places wouldn't dare discriminate in this way. But once the legislature grants them permission to start nosing around in their employees' personal lives, how many are going to have a sudden uptick in their interest in employees' medical treatment? Especially when the employee is one of those uppity women?

Hard to square their claimed "culture of life" philosophy with a law that stops people from earning a living, but I'm not a Republican.

[ecstatic]

22. Which employer prefers their group plan to deal with pregnancies & maternal leave over

birth control and/or abortions? It makes zero sense from a financial perspective. It's one of those scenarios that only happens in a rethug's imagination (much like their bathroom laws, etc.).

[JenniferJuniper]

23. Er, HIPAA privacy?

How would an employer legally know someone's medical history?

[Bengus81]

24. And people ALWAYS think Kansas has the most NUT JOB Republicans..... NOPE

Look at Oklahoma,now this BS in Missouri.......

[MANative]

26. I've been accused more than once of being verbose and loquacious, but...

there are no words sufficient to describe my rage over other people trying to dictate reproductive and/or health choices of others.

[LisaM]

27. If they can discriminate on this basis (which seems illegal) - what about other legal procedures?

Could they base hiring on whether someone has had a gastric bypass? A nose job? A vasectomy?

And, it violates privacy laws. So if they waste their time passing this nonsense, they will waste a lot more defending it in the courts.

[liberalhistorian]

28. So, how will they know?

Unless you submit an insurance claim for contraception or abortion, how will they find out? Send the "pregnancy police" to every female employee's doctor every month or something, or force them to undergo monthly exams, like they did in Romania under Coucesciu (spelling), or as they do in many Central and Latin American countries now? WTF? Shit, I shouldn't be giving them any ideas.

That's the insidious thing, though. Women who can afford to pay for contraception and abortion without insurance likely won't have to worry about it. But those who can't will, as usual, be railroaded and discriminated against. And an awful lot of even employed, even middle-class women can't afford those on their own without insurance.

I don't want to hear another word from these fuckers about "Sharia Law".

[tonyt53]

29. Uh, folks, you need to start weeding out real news from fake news. You have been had.

Little thing called HIPAA prevents this from happening. It isn't state law, it is federal.

[Angry Dragon]

30. Republican hate women ..........

[3catwoman3]

32. There must be enough women that hate women...

...too, or crap like this would never pass.