Where's The Religious Freedom In Birth Control Mandate?
Bangalore
Wheres The Religious Freedom In Birth Control Mandate?
by Bangalore 5 Replies latest jw friends
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NewChapter
If you had group health insurance through your employer, and you found out that they covered the morning after pill, would you drop the insurance? Your premiums go into a fund that is spread out to cover health care for everyone in that group, so technically you would be supporting that and other forms of birth control even if you don't use them. Would you drop your health insurance if you found out?
Your taxes fund a war machine that sometimes kills babies, children and pregnant women. Do you stop paying taxes? You invest in a mutual fund for retirement, and your investment company decides what stocks and bonds to put it in. They choose companies that manufacture guns, or perhaps pharmaceuticals that makes the morning after pill, do you withdraw from that fund? You go to an emergency room that also treats rape victims and offers the morning after pill. Technically you think you are paying for your own care, however the hospital will use that money how it sees fit. It will go into a general fund and be doled out as needed. Do you not go to that hospital?
You find out that some private insurance companies provide services that you would never use on moral grounds, but health care reform uses these companies to make sure everyone can actually get health care. Do you deny health care coverage to pregnant women, children, sick babies, healthy babies and premies because your money goes into a general fund that may pay for the morning after pill? Have you also stopped paying taxes? Have you pulled your money from mutual funds that you have thoroughly researched? Have you dropped your group insurance provided by your employer?
It's just something to think about. Before taking any hope of health care away from pregant women, children and babies, it would be good to make sure all of your other investments are just as pure. I would respect you for that.
NC
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NewChapter
Mississippi likes to say it is the safest state for the unborn. However they have the highest infant mortality rate and the second highest rate for children living in poverty. Pregnant women and children can't get needed health care. Do you see a contradiction here?
I find it problematic when people freak out that others may actually get health care on the basis that an insurance company might also provide abortion or contraception, but conveniently turn their heads as babies die in need of medical attention. I tend to think all this concern is a bit misplaced. The most evil thing the government can do is provide health care for these ones.
NC
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Bangalore
Good points NC. Sometimes they seem more concerned about the unborn child rather than children already born and starving or sick.
Bangalore
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NewChapter
Yeah. I'm fine with it, but really want them to think about the full picture. Taking part in group insurance for instance. Or Mutual Funds. How many people REALLY research the companies that are being invested in? By taking the mutual fund route, you give that responsiblity to someone else. If you resist health care on the basis that your money ends up in a fund that is also used to pay for contraception or abortion, but leave your retirement be, that is disingenuous.
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designs
Arizona is considering legislation that would require a woman to disclose the reason for taking birth control pills to their employer when seeking reimbursement on the company health care plan. The Arizona bill would also allow an employer the freedom to punish or fire an employee who sought birth control by another means.