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sheshe2

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Mon Jun 30, 2014, 11:20 PM Jun 2014

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Women aren't People anymore so says SCOTUS. They want control of a Woman's right. What say you all?



MS. Foundation for Women Condemns
High Court Attack on Women's Health and Rights




Rights
For Immediate Release
June 30, 2014
“Employers are proselytizing by paycheck – and women could pay for it with their health and economic security.”

WASHINGTON — Ms. Foundation for Women President and CEO Teresa Younger issued the following statement in response to today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing employers to refuse to pay for birth control coverage under employee health benefit plans mandated by the Affordable Care Act.

“Rather than support religious freedom, the high court sacrificed women’s reproductive justice on the altar of religious intolerance. Today’s decision violates women’s reproductive and economic rights while potentially endangering their health.

“Birth control is preventative health care. Ensuring coverage of contraceptives has meant that more women can plan their families, have healthy pregnancies and healthy children. Birth control pills are also used to treat medical conditions, such as endometriosis, improving the overall health and quality of life of women.

“Contraceptive coverage is not just about ensuring women have access to basic, preventative health care, it also is about women’s economic security. Without birth control coverage, many women would have to pay anywhere from $15 to $50+ per month. Women will need to come up with hundreds of dollars each year to pay for their preventative health care – unless the government provides coverage for women whose employers opt to deny birth control.

http://forwomen.org/content/328/en/
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Welcome to the USA [View all] sheshe2 Jun 2014 OP
I say we need to Blow this back in their smug corporation loving faces, she.. Cha Jun 2014 #1
I'm going to write the Pope. jaysunb Jun 2014 #2
The Pope, Jay? What are you gonna say? Cha Jun 2014 #8
LOL ! I thought that would be obvious... jaysunb Jul 2014 #22
Right! Thank you! As the President says.. Cha Jul 2014 #23
I just updated my thread Cha. sheshe2 Jun 2014 #3
Compelling Tweet from David Plouffe, she.. "Key "C" word is not contraception . It's Control.." Cha Jun 2014 #9
Shameful decision. Yes it is Cha. sheshe2 Jul 2014 #10
Ugly indeed. From the inside out. calimary Jul 2014 #18
Their ruling is frightening. IMO it opens the door to all types of RKP5637 Jul 2014 #25
And it WILL be used as a precedent. I don't give a damn WHAT anybody says about how supposedly calimary Jul 2014 #29
Yes, they are absolutely ugly creatures, unfit to be in the positions they hold. We desperately RKP5637 Jul 2014 #24
A few of them look like they're on the wrong side of the bars! n/t RKP5637 Jul 2014 #11
SMH, RKP.. :( This will not end well.. for them and their ilk. Law of Unintended Consequences. nm Cha Jul 2014 #13
shitbags BlancheSplanchnik Jul 2014 #16
They Have Been an Insidious Cancer on America. Cha Jul 2014 #21
Thats was a disgusting decision. William769 Jun 2014 #4
Yes it was. William. sheshe2 Jun 2014 #6
I really want to know stage left Jun 2014 #5
Yes. sheshe2 Jun 2014 #7
HL leadership is a bunch of sick individuals. Also HL is gross, all the crap. I went in RKP5637 Jul 2014 #12
Thanks, Sheshe stage left Jul 2014 #14
Because dudes, bro-man. BlancheSplanchnik Jul 2014 #17
K Cha Jul 2014 #15
Since 2011, SCOTUS has sided with corporations..... 88% of the time. ErikJ Jul 2014 #19
K & R Iliyah Jul 2014 #20
Post removed Post removed Jul 2014 #26
You're the sickness!! DocMac Jul 2014 #27
Bye bye malaise Jul 2014 #28
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