Supreme Court rejects birth control case.
By on Oct 1st, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Supreme Court rejects birth control case.
The Supreme Court today “declined to enter a church-state dispute over whether some religious organizations can be forced to pay for workers’ birth-control health insurance benefits. … The court let stand a New York court ruling upholding a state law that forces religious-based social service agencies to subsidize contraceptives as part of prescription drug coverage they offer employees.”
UPDATE: Bush v. Choice has more.
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My God! The homosexual-Islamo-fascist-communists are on the march!
Soon they will be enforcing Sharia law!
Get Atlas Shrugged on the line, we need to start the revolution.
-GSD
October 1st, 2007 at 1:01 pmBush’s court of jesters will not touch this case > PERIOD.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:02 pmHey trolls, I’m tired today. What do you say we skip the usual “every sperm is sacred” idiocy you usually engage in, mkay?
October 1st, 2007 at 1:08 pmThey need to leave their Make Believe Magical Invisible Faerie at the door, prejudice doesn’t work well with others.
Buck Fush
October 1st, 2007 at 1:36 pmYou guys are right fascism is on the march and rights are disappearing.
Comment by Vendetta — October 1, 2007 @ 1:28 pm
Habeas Corpus and right to privacy are on life support…
Freedom of religion also includes, strangely enough, freedom FROM religion… no matter what McCain fantasizes, we are NOT a Christian nation.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:44 pmHey, Michael, speaking of “the truth”, you claimed yesterday that Iran has “nukes”. When I challenged you to back up that assertion, you became uncharacteristically quiet.
Perhaps you feel more up to backing up your vapid claims today?
October 1st, 2007 at 1:47 pmMichael sez:
It is…you’re just too stupid to comprehend it.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:48 pmVendetta sez:
How do you figure?
October 1st, 2007 at 2:01 pmTest
October 1st, 2007 at 2:20 pmComment by Michael — October 1, 2007 @ 1:42 pm
NO ! the bastids! I wonder where they ever learned a dirty trick like that!
And Limbaugh and O’Reilly such fine, upstanding, honest, moral, unbiased citizens! LOL. Swiftboat the hell out of them!
October 1st, 2007 at 2:23 pmLike it or not, the system we have now in this country for health insurance is that employers provide the insurance for their employees (either in part or in full). As long as we keep this system, there will be cases such as this one.
Now we can see that government-provided health care will not only reduce the cost of health care by eliminating profit-taking middlemen and provide coverage for all, but it will also relieve religious-based employers from challenges to their values.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:27 pmI wonder if they have no problem covering viagara, levitra and cialis?
October 1st, 2007 at 2:39 pmso….
October 1st, 2007 at 2:42 pmby refusing to take the case and not make a decision, the court actually made the right decision.
If Michael can’t attack the message, he’ll attack the messenger.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:43 pmIronically the only employer allowed to exclude contraceptive coverage is the federal government.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:48 pm#17 — Shockingly, yes! The first right thing this court has done in a while. I get nervous now when they agree to take a case.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:57 pmCry baby Clarence knows he has to vote to dismantle the Civil Rights Bill and Woman’s Rights. He knows
what his friends do when your not needed anymore
like how they treated Gonzales. Yes Clarence has to
write his resignation and say he wants to spend time
with his family so he’s leaving the Supreme Court.
Yes like Judas, Clarence took the 30 pieces of sliver from Satan. Now Clarence will have no body and he’s
is in fear of how his Grandfather and Mother feel about
him being a Sell of to his race after benefiting from
so many people who gave their lives for Freedom for
all.
The Supreme Court to do as much as possible for the Republican party while they can. We will see Americans who will not be able to vote and lose other
October 1st, 2007 at 3:06 pmrights. Woman will lose their rights and all hell will
break out.
I don’t really see the problem. If the religious groups are required to provide the contraceptives as part of their coverage but the groups oppose contraception and the employees of these groups hold the same principles (one would presume), then the groups won’t be paying out for any contraceptives.
October 1st, 2007 at 4:06 pmNow, the ONLY real positive I can see is that a woman working for one of these groups who was hired under the notion that her beliefs fell in line with those of the group cannot be fired for getting contraceptives. But, I don’t see this happening very often.
I’m just going to leave it at this, Swank.
In 2005 my wife caught a stomach bug so bad it had her laying on the floor, incapacitated, after having basically flushed her GI tract out on both ends. She couldn’t move, so I called 911. When the paramedics got there, they were shocked at how pale she was — and this is a black girl we’re talking about.
Long story short? The Insurance company tried to BS us with ‘Oh, we’re not covering it because it ‘wasn’t life threatening”, six months after the visit. My wife, laying on the ground, so dehydrated that they had to put three saline bags into her, ‘not life threatened’. We fought that bullshit call for a half a year, until finally, they admitted, “Yes, maybe this WAS life threatening. But hey! Your hospital was in our network so we’ll cover that, but your ambulance wasn’t! So we’re not going to cover that! And now that it’s been a year, your appeals are all gone!”
Short answer? $100 deductable for the hospital, and $700 for ambulance service. Swank, you probably don’t give a shit. After all, you carry water for the party that doesn’t give a shit except padding their pockets. Like Bigfoot, you parade around the bald-faced lie that there’s nothing wrong with America’s healthcare plan. Your lies cause people’s health to suffer, and costs American lives, much like your boy Bush’s lies cost almost 4,000 American soldiers _their_ lives, not to mention hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
I call bull on your lie that there’s nothing wrong with health insurance. The American Health Insurance sector has lost touch with its primary goal of saving American lives and has joined the rest of Corporate America in their new goal of fleecing their customers for the benefits of their CEOs and stock holders. Gone are the days of slow and steady growth, replaced with get-rich-quick schemes which once the CEOs run the company into the ground, they can walk away, scott free, with a fat wallet while the workers and ethical stockholders are left holding the bags. Government may not be the perfect answer, but your people’s ideology has so permeated the American society and economy that everything that was ever good about American society has rotted away and all we have left is greed and arrogance. Health insurance no longer works.
So, keep mouthing off in support of the status quo, Swank. You either are a pitiful fool supporting your masters while they fleece you to the bank or you’re part what is wrong with America. Take your pick.
October 1st, 2007 at 6:04 pm