- Invited to sign a petition to allow Hobby Lobby to not have to provide abortion causing drugs...I suppose you can define "abortion causing drugs" however you want, but Plan B does not cause abortions it prevents them. I think it gets down to whether you are talking about preventing fertilization or preventing implantation of a fertilized egg. Fertilized eggs fail to implant properly all the time. In other words, the most common reason for abortion is failure of an egg to get fertilized and attach in the uterus in a complete natural fashion. And sometimes abortions are needed to save the life of the mother and the child is not going to survive anyway - a fertilized egg implanting in a Fallopian tube for example. If companies can decide what drugs they want to cover than they should stop covering viagra first - it would make more sense for them economically. Some of us (who have had two miserably sick pregnancies) for example - some of us do not want to get pregnant again and given the difficulty of preventing pregnancy without harming mom's health we would like all options available. Isn't it crazy how difficult it is to get effective contraception yet other women can't have a child even trying hard for years? I got pregnant 2 weeks after going off birth control both times. My cousin got pregnant while on birth control pills. Life is so unfair.
- Gina Ohnesorg It does all depend on when you define life. In my opinion a woman's choice comes before she is pregnant when she decided to participate in the act that causes pregnancy (and yes I know that women do not always have the choice like when raped and that there are pregnancies that are life threatening). If a company defines life differently than I do and they don't cover the birth control that I want, then I don't have to work for them or I can pay for it myself. My insurance company doesn't cover any birth control, which means I have to pay for whatever I want to use and they aren't forced to cover it-I don't hear anyone telling them that they are anti-women's health. It really is a religious freedom issue to me, not a woman's health issue, though.
I do think any insurance company that does not cover most standard birthcontrol is anti-women! Regarding religious freedom, I think that the Christian Church has used their traditional interpretations of the Bible to oppress many groups - slaves, (clearly ok even in New Testament to own slaves) minority races, women, homosexuals.) Should churches and other religious insurance companies be able to say that they won't cover the birth of a mixed race child because they feel God doesn't want blacks and whites to marry? At some point we have to draw a line between religious freedom and equal protection under the laws (14 Amendment) for historically oppressed groups like blacks, women, homosexuals. We made it illegal for private companies to refuse to serve black people regardless of their religious beliefs. Many Christians felt at the time that God had created two separate races and cursed the blacks (children of Ham or Ishmael.)
