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Old 07-05-2014, 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Bonanza View Post
On a serious note, I have read so many articles online and heard so many national news broadcasts, I couldn't even guess where I heard or read any of them. If you Google Hobby Lobby I'm sure you will be able to read most of the articles I've read.

I'm not sure what thoughts or opinions of mine you are referring to, but I would be happy to expand if you let me know specifically, what you mean.

I am not in the medical profession so I couldn't possibly go into detail about any of the many IUDs in use today. But if an egg is fertilized, it is already "implanted," no?

My bottom line is that I am angry -- very angry, at the way women are treated in this world. It's everything from getting the same pay for the same job as a man, to women who are stoned to death because they married a man their family did not choose for them, to a woman's right to choose, to female Chinese babies left on the side of the road, to Hobby Lobby's stand on incomplete health insurance for women. The list could go on and on ad infinitum. THAT is where I am coming from.

Thanx for that response, Bonanza, it explained everything I needed to know. Since you know as little about the Hobby Lobby decision as you know about women's reproductive health, perhaps you might try reading this pdf file of the decision: http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2014/im...3-354_olp1.pdf [copy/paste the link into your browser]

It probably won't change your mind but it should change your awareness of what the real issues were in reaching the decision. The Judges words are the facts as opposed to the sound bites and rants of the talking heads you have listened to. The Judges were playing to the law - talking heads are playing to an audience they want to attract and/or keep.

[PS If you believe H.L. provides incomplete health ins for women because it will not pay the premium for 4 types of contraceptive care, know that the ACA also then provides incomplete health ins for women since it requires coverage for less than all of the contraceptive medications that are available to women.]
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