deducecanoe:meutrier-poli:deducecanoe:meutrier-poli:geejayeff:amypop:I’m so angry. I will stay angry
deducecanoe:meutrier-poli:deducecanoe:meutrier-poli:geejayeff:amypop:I’m so angry. I will stay angry.“It’s actually the exact opposite of religious freedom if you’re forcing employees to abide by your beliefs.”^THIS THIS THIS!!!The government should not be telling any one what they should or should not be doing, making laws that ENFORCE business owners to do something, and they should not be the ones deciding what each individual woman wants to do with her body. I say it is all a huge misunderstanding. Paying the government isn’t going to get people anywhere. Being open to people’s own opinions and their OWN bodies is how businesses and societies should be run.It’s not a huge misunderstanding. These employers want to control women. The Supreme Court just helped enable that. You can pass off any shitty belief as religious conviction. You know the bible says nothing about contraceptives but it does say things about working in Sundays. If I told my employer I refused to work any schedule because of religious conviction I am certain they would find a way to fire me that did not tie back to religious conviction. This stuff doesn’t flow both ways.I’m sure of that. I am not supporting a huge corporation. I’m just saying that anyone has the right to contraceptives and that it shouldn’t be law that corporations have to have contraceptives available. If you would like to use birth control, it is your right, not anyone else’s to tell you you can’t have. I’m sorry if that came out a little angry (I’m not enforcing my opinion on anyone) :)Yeah, but I am paying for my insurance too. I’m also paying the copays. End of the day, I am probably paying more than my employer. They are paying INTO a system that provides many treatments and drugs. Some are viagra. Some are surgeries for brain tumors. Some are eye examns. Some are prostate examns. Some are birth control. Your employer is not directly cutting a check for your ortho-tricyclen. And even if they WERE… they’re not paying for ALL of the BC. I still have my copay. Which is way too high for someone who makes $22k a year with a masters. I pay $60 every time I go get my junk looked at. That’s like 13% of my take-home pay for that paycheck. That is NOT comprehensive healthcare, if you refuse to pay for a large portion of women’s reproductive healthcare needs. MOST plans pay for all kinds of things for men. Prostate exam, hormones like testosterone if they have low testosterone, penis pills. Even penis pumps (I shit you not). If I am paying a $60 copay to have a doctor stick a metal hinge in my crotch then poke her fingers around my fallopian tubes, I should have access via the same healthcare program I am paying for bi-weekly out of my own paycheck to have medication that shrinks Larry, Curly, Mo and Sid, my ovarian cysts (which hurt like hell when they explode), or medication to ensure I don’t get pregnant, irresponsibly, when I am only making 22K a year. Did you know if you make 22K a year and have three people in your family you suddenly qualify for a variety of state assistance in my state? Yup. Conservatives like that even less. So I suppose I should deny my husband sex, even though men think they’re entitled to it (see penis pumps and viagra) because I can’t afford the $250 that my medication would cost out of pocket. I’m on some heavy duty whack shit to keep my bits from turning against me. I am not asking for a facelift, or a boob job. I am not asking for elective surgery. Hell, I am not even asking they pay for my venus reflux surgery, which they won’t. I’m saying that out of the $300+ I contribute every month to my healthcare, plus the copays I pay, I should be able to have some return on that investment and have the medication that I and my doctor have decided I need. This isn’t about paying for it myself. I AM paying for it myself. TWICE. THREE times. Once with the premium, once with the doctor’s office deductable and one with my copay. I am paying for it a hell of a lot more times than my employer. -- source link