RE: Would You Boycott a Business Because of the Owner's Political Views?
January 28, 2017 at 2:32 pm
(January 28, 2017 at 2:20 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: But they still believe life begins at conception. Not at implantation. So they are morally opposed to drugs that would keep implantation from happening, thus killing the newly conceived human. We're calling it an abortion in that sense.
This is the problem. They are literally redefining words to meet their political ends. It isn't abortion. The thing was never a living thing. You can't just change the meaning of words. Conception means a very specific thing. It isn't just a sperm touches an egg. The whole process, which includes implantation and hormonal response is a medically defined term.
(January 28, 2017 at 2:20 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: As for your last question, it's a bit loaded. Their employees can get those 4 birth controls if they'd like, oitside of tje plan. The conflict is the ppl who own HL have a big moral objection to abortion, so they understandably don't want the insurance they provide and pay for to cover that. And again, I don't think omitting 4 types of birth control from the 20 that are available is some sort of "limit to health care." I really don't see how that is so horribly unreasonable.
You aren't understanding the legal precedent this sets. What would stop any company that has a moral objection to premarital sex from opting out of FMLA coverage for unwed couples? Or, for that matter, legally married gay couples from family coverage for their adopted child? Or, since we get to redefine terms all over the place, what would stop me from saying that all contraception is abortion, and opting out of coverage for all women employed by me? Why should a business get to make any health decisions for any person, period? Especially when that business is accepting government subsidies to provide said coverage?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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