Protect Access to Birth Control Act

[little2add]

How is objecting to providing the cost for birth control shameful attacks on women?  Birth control including abortion is available openly without discrimination to all.  However forcing "others" to finance said,  is obscene, as far as I,am concerned.     

The lawsuit started by "the Little Sisters of the Poor" objects only to paying for birth control and has nothing to do with access to it .  The Democrats are being pathetic.  There lawsuit is a shameful grasp to get votes and a slap in the face to judeo Christian beliefs.

 

 

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) along with 35 of her Democratic colleagues in the Senate introduced a bill Thursday that would repeal the Trump Administration’s recent broadening of exemptions from the Obamacare contraceptive mandate for employers with religious and moral objections.

The “Protect Access to Birth Control Act” is brief, stating that the religious and moral exemptions “shall have no force or effect, and shall be treated as though such rules had never taken effect.”

Her colleague Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) claimed, “this Administration has continued to roll back women’s health and women’s rights. Women must have access to vital preventive health care, including birth control, and employers should not be allowed to cherry-pick essential benefits. This legislation protects women’s access to contraceptives and birth control, no matter who their boss is.”

Four Democrats plan to introduce similar legislation in the House. Both bills are unlikely to be brought to the floor by House and Senate Republicans.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is currently suing the Trump administration over the religious exemptions arguing that the rules violate the Establishment Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution by “authorizing and promoting religiously motivated and other discrimination against women seeking reproductive health care.”

The Little Sisters of the Poor, who care for the elderly poor in the U.S., are finally beginning to see some relief along with other nonprofit religious organizations that had been involved in a five-year long lawsuit against the Obama administration over the contraceptive mandate.

Mark Rienzi, senior counsel with the Becket Fund representing the Little Sisters in court, called the exemptions a “victory for common sense.” 

“The previous administration pursued a needless and divisive culture war,” he said. “It was always ridiculous to claim you need nuns to give out contraceptives. This new rule shows that you don’t.”

 

LINK: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2017/10/19/democrats-introduce-bill-to-repeal-trumps-religious-exemptions-to-contraceptive-mandate-n2397525?utm_content=bufferab621&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[little2add]

Being on birth control is a CHOICE, insurance doesn't cover drugs just because you want to be on them.   Besides, birth control is not an illness. 

[Norseman82]

Keeping one's zipper closed costs nothing, and there is only one recorded case of failure in history, for which we get a day off work in late December.

[dominicansoul]

...and yet Catholics keep voting Democrat...

[havok579257]

On 11/22/2017 at 1:36 PM, dominicansoul said:

...and yet Catholics keep voting Democrat...

or for republicans who repeat claims they will stop funding to planned parenthood but back down.