...repeals that law and allows any employer to refuse to cover contraception that will be used "for contraceptive, abortifacient, abortion or sterilization purposes." If a woman wants the cost of her contraception covered, she has to "submit a claim" to her employer providing evidence of a medical condition, such as endometriosis or polycystic ovarian syndrome, that can be treated with birth control...

A million will be diagnosed as having either condition to skirt the law. This is ridiculous! less

What bullshit. This will open the door to allow employers to fire people for all kinds of reasons that are PRIVATE. How about a drug company who is allowed to fire people who use drugs that their competitors made? How about a clothing company who makes jeans who fires women who wear skirts instead?

I worked at La Leche League years ago (I worked in the office on the lactation hotline as a paid professional, not a volunteer.) There were PLENTY of women who worked in that office (not in my job, but in office jobs) who had never breastfed their babies. LLL was not allowed BY LAW to prevent women who didn't breastfeed from working there, in fact they were not allowed to ASK! Nor should they have. LLL has a very strong dedication to breastfeeding and in some ways some who worked there felt (similarly to a religion) that ALL who worked there needed to be on board with the "belief system" of the organization. (I didn't. As long as people weren't giving breastfeeding advice to others, it didn't matter to me how they fed their children)

Why does everyone who works for a church related organization HAVE TO agree with everything that religion says? La Leche League wasn't allowed such a thing. And some felt our "message" was diluted by such allowances, but it was not right to discriminate against those who couldn't or didn't breastfeed.

I hope what I am saying made sense. A LOT of organizations have "belief systems" but they have NO RIGHT to force their employees to join in that belief system. Churches are no different.

They want all kinds of tax exempt statuses, if they don't want to pay taxes, then they should have to go along with the way other companies work; PAY for health car and not put their fat noses into what it is used for. HIPPA prevents your employer from seeing your health records, yet that is exactly what these church based organizations what to do; see your health records.

People, there is a NEW War on Women, and it's being lead by the far Right. It needs to stop NOW! less

Stormy, these churches have NO desire for people to "settle into a suburban life with children." If they did, they would PAY BETTER. (I know people who work in church run schools and offices and they pay like shit.)

Churches do this to keep women barefoot and pregnant! It's simple. They don't give a shit about our economy, they just want things the way they were in the 1600s. Where people were afraid of the Church, yet were powerless to not be part of it, and did anything the Church said.

FTR, I live a nice suburban life with children and some of the products that go with it, and I think this law is absolute bullshit. Some of us choose to have marriages with kids and a nice house in the suburbs, but that doesn't mean we expect everyone else to want that. It's kind of unfair to those of us who live that way, to say we're being forced into it? Isn't it? Not to mention that most of us who do live this lifestyle need birth control just as much as hipster city dwellers.

I'm all for people living in the way they choose. And, not having a church or an employer tell them how to live. But, please don't put down those of us who do want a family. Few of us want a baby every other year until we go into menopause, even if we do want kids. I think as women, we are ALL under attack. And we need to stick together, not splinter among ourselves. This is NOT the fault of suburban families with kids, it's the Right trying to grab control. That's it. less

Recently, the ACLU brought attention to a bill that would make it possible for a boss to fire an employee for taking birth control, and for employers to deny women health coverage for birth control. The bill has already passed one house in Arizona.

Do you think it's acceptable for an employer to have this kind of power over an employee? less