Missouri Lawmakers Override Governor’s Veto Of Bill Allowing Employers To Deny Access To Birth Contr

[Tx4obama]

Source: TPM

The Missouri legislature has overridden Gov. Jan Nixon’s (D) veto of a bill that would allow employers or health insurance providers to stop offering coverage for contraception, abortion, or sterilization if doing so violated their religious or moral convictions. Nixon had vetoed the legislation in July after it passed in May. The Missouri House voted 109-45 — the exact number of votes needed — to overturn Nixon’s decision, and the Senate approved the override 26-6. ....

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/09/12/840151/missouri-legislature-overrides-veto-contraception-bill/

[HockeyMom]

1. We told you they would go after Birth Control too

We all have to live under the Catholic Church's rules now. You cannot leave the Catholic Church if you want to.

[benld74]

2. MIS-SOU-R-aaaaaaaa crap ya gotta be kidding me!!!!!

[Dont call me Shirley]

3. Invest in and insist on condoms, Missouri women, lest you become barefoot "n" pregnant.

[davsand]

8. Condoms hell! Tell the men the playground is closed until you get your rights back.

I'm thinking ladies need to take control over this shit and they need to do it NOW.



Laura

[khan8]

15. agreed

a conservative male friend was ranting about the Sandra Fluke & birth control. I asked him - if women don't have birth control who are men going to fornicate with? Each other?? Shut. Him. Down.

[CBHagman]

17. Now there's a line to use on the next yahoo...

...who thinks he has the right to slander Sandra Fluke because of her testimony.

[Autumn]

4. Sounds like it's time for a Declaration of Independence for Women.

we would just need to add women to it.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Women and Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men and Women, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind and womankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. +1

[BadgerKid]

5. Disappointing and outrageous!

These employees are now subject to their employer's "religious" or "moral" whims. Any list of employers (beside the Church, obviously) for this vote?

EDIT: so won't federal laws take the place of this, i.e., leaving the employer out of the loop for this coverage (see: http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/February/States-Join-Fight-against-Birth-Control-Mandate/)?

[pstokely]

18. MO has an ex-Repuke AG

nt

[Rider3]

6. Was this an all-male legislature?

Just wondering....

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Nope. Some GOP female too.

[davsand]

7. The "Show Me State" just did. They showed you WHY women need to vote.

Yet another wake up call to women who thought they might skip voting this year.

Ladies, they are climbing up in your "business." Do you REALLY want them there?







Laura

[CobaltBlue]

9. …

What will the voting electorate do about this?

…Elect more Republicans?

[Smilo]

10. So what's next......... your employer

doesn't believe in xyz so should not cover it.

This is such bullshit.

Is this the camel with its nose in the tent to try and defeat Obamacare?

[alp227]

16. If I were a clueless authoritarian,

I would have just said that the employer's rules are the rules and that the employee should just work somewhere else if employer lacks adequate health coverage. Kind of like "Crappy boss? Go work somewhere else!"

But as a progressive I realize that employees DO have rights! This Missouri law is just like those misnamed conscience bills that let pharmacies refuse to supply contraceptives. Would any state legislature even approach a similar bill to the one in MO if the lobbying came from Jews, Muslims, or even Wiccans? HELL NO!

SO much is wrong with this new law I would also compare it with letting employers get employees' facebook passwords.

[SoapBox]

11. Get a clue Ladies of Missouri...and America.

The Repukes and Baggers want to tell you EXACTLY what to do! Period.

And if you think that this does not affect you, there WILL be other things that will...being a woman, WILL return to being a Pre-Existing Condition! Face it...

You should be in the streets by the hundreds of thousands in Missouri.

p.s....

Pastor Martin Niemöller 14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984

“THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.

THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.

THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.”

[BlueMTexpat]

13. Let's hope that there is a silver lining in that

Missouri voters will wake up enough to vote for McCaskill and then get busy enough to vote every last one of these women-haters out of office.

[pstokely]

19. McCaskil won't beat Akin, Akin will beat himself

Repukes will still vote for him even though they will not openly support him

[BlueMTexpat]

20. However it may work out,

I fervently hope that enough Dems and Independents vote so that McCaskill takes the seat.