Missouri Advances Bill Allowing Employers to Fire Women for Using Birth Control

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Missouri Advances Bill Allowing Employers to Fire Women for Using Birth Control
Posted on Jun 23, 2017

On Tuesday, the Missouri House of Representatives voted in favor of Senate Bill 5, which would modify statewide provisions relating to abortion. Changes would affect local abortion policies, tissue reports, employee disclosure policies and abortion facility inspections.

Pitched as an expansion of religious freedom for employers and landlords, the bill would overturn a St. Louis city ordinance that prevented discrimination against women who have had abortions. The new law would allow employers to fire female employees for having had abortions or using birth control. It would extend the privilege of discrimination to landlords, who could evict women for getting an abortion, getting pregnant out of wedlock or using birth control.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/missouri_passes_bill_allowing_employers_20170622

[joeybee12]

1. The handmaid tale

Or is it Handmaiden. What is this 1850?

[Dawson Leery]

2. Certainly.

[Matthew28]

18. That is exactly where the republican party wants us to be

[Dawson Leery]

3. kick

[GoCubsGo]

4. Why would an employer even care?

And, how the hell is any of this constitutional?

[loyalsister]

8. It will prbably go to court ASAP

and be found unconstitutional. The legislature is doing this to piss off STL which passed an antidiscrimination ordinance that this bill will undo. It's petty and will give credentials to the "prolife" legislators and especially the governor. He used to be a Democrat and they are helping to scrub the prochoice brand off of his resume.

[Blue_true]

21. We should make sure that the ones that do and try to restrict women's rights

go out of business.

[Initech]

5. What would a dick do?

[Ilsa]

6. This is only fair if employers do the same for men:

having sex for any resason other than procreation. The women they fire should be able to name the men and expect them to lose their jobs, housing, etc. It's part of MY religion, after all.

[lunasun]

33. +1

[smirkymonkey]

7. WTF? Is this legal in this country?

Can this stand? I am watching the 21st century disappear before my eyes and I feel like I am going mad.

[Matthew28]

19. Republicans are religious fascist

They won't be happy until we're living in the 15th century and anyone that dares step out of line is hung.

We're watching the death of freedom and people keep voting republican.

[roamer65]

9. IMO, Women need to go on a "sex strike".

No sex with men until this stupid shit stops.

[LeftyMom]

12. FFS, can people stop with this dumb idea?

Sex isn't a favor women dole out to men. Rumor has it we like it too, and it's just as important to our emotional well-being, ability to build and maintain healthy relationships, etc.

[Persisted]

17. No one suggested women stop having sex.

Just sex with men.

[LeftyMom]

20. Uh, you do know that for the majority of women it's the same thing?

[Persisted]

24. Right. Let's pretend most women don't masturbate. Let's

decide masturbation isn't sex.

[roamer65]

35. .

[Persisted]

36. Wrong finger. Or maybe not, lol. nt

[roamer65]

37. LMAO.

Welcome to DU, btw.

[Vinca]

10. I'm just curious. How, exactly, would an employer know if an employee was on birth control?

Do they do home inspections of medicine cabinets or demand an inspection of an IUD string?

[Aristus]

13. That comes next, undoubtedly.

Henry Ford used to have company inspectors break into Ford employee's houses and search the premises for anything Ford might find 'objectionable'. I don't think that word was ever properly defined in the corporate by-laws. But if Ford didn't like something, anything, that was turned up in the search, the employee was fired.

That's the kind of country the vicious Ayn Rand-worshippers want...

[Sinistrous]

11. Attempt at a crosspost from the Missouri group:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10612101#post3

[jpak]

14. Does this cover guys using condoms?

Or is this plain old XtianGOP misogyny?

[bettyellen]

28. Someone should film men buying condoms and then threaten to out them- just to show how ridiculous

this is.

[Takket]

15. unconstitutional

the bill favors one gender over the other. This is a violation of the 14th amendment.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/equal_protection

[Egnever]

16. First thing I thought

This couldn't possibly stand up in court.

One wonders if some of these legislatures even consider the constitution when writing these things.

[Blue_true]

22. Republicans pass these bills hoping one slips past the Courts.

Republicans attack Judges because they want cowered Judges that rubber stamp their bills and ignore the Constitution.

[edhopper]

34. You mean the Court that threw out

the Voting Rights Act and whose newest member is a proponent of Religious Liberty?

That Court?

[WillowTree]

23. Can someone please post a link to the text of this bill?

I've searched and searched and the only text I can find for SB 5 for this session has nothing to do with abortion or birth control. There's and SB 67 that proposes changes to Missouri's laws applying to abortion facilities, but that's all. Yet every reference to these draconian provisions mentions SB 5, which doesn't seem to apply.

I'd just really like to see what such a ridiculous bill actually says, but I can't find it.

[Ron Obvious]

25. You'd think the employers prefer their workers not to get pregnant

I'll never understand this mindset, nor for that matter do I understand the opposition of corporate America to single payer healthcare which would be a tremendous convenience for them as well as keeping their workers healthy enough to work without having to administer an insurance programme.

I suppose the dogma (religion, free market) triumphs over common sense capitalism. Bizarre.

[defacto7]

26. I guess it's about employer options..

They can get rid of workers for getting pregnant as well as for trying not to get pregnant. The idea is how to keep women from having sex for any other reason than corporate admissible procreation. That's all I can make out of it.

[tenderfoot]

27. Western Sharia Law

eom

[lunasun]

29. Pence's VP debate comments scared the hell out of me . He pretty much envisioned this for

Americas future

[Matthew28]

31. He wants a christian

Saudi Arabia when it comes to social issues.

We'll of course be even worse economically.

[lunasun]

32. And women will bear babies for the less fortunate ! Praise yeezus

https://activisthistory.com/2017/06/02/the-handmaids-tale-america-in-the-age-of-pence/

[FormerOstrich]

30. Norma Rae (Crystal Lee Sutton) we have failed you n/t

[blueinredohio]

38. How would they know you had an abortion

or used birth control?