When you think of the trending themes of this presidency and the political fury that has spread onto its followers and opponents, you may think of the following: Republicans are racist, Republicans are fat and rich, Republican extremists are worse than jihadists, Republicans are traditionalist male chauvinist pigs with one hand on their bank accounts and the other on a good woman’s reproductive system and, of course, Republicans are greedy.
And yet with this continued debacle over the Supreme Court’s decision regarding Hobby Lobby and their religious right not to offer coverage for two forms of morning after pills and two forms of IUDs, never before has such a display of greedy been displayed by the side that sees themselves as the least greedy.
Feminists and the extreme left can turn this into a rights violation all they want. Do it until they hyperventilate. It doesn’t change the fact that no one’s rights have been violated except for the ones in their imaginations.
Rights would only have been violated in two ways. 1) Hobby Lobby not only refuses to over coverage for these four items, but denies employment to those who use them. 2) The Supreme Court ruled against Hobby Lobby and said they had no rights, whether religious or not, to not offer coverage for these four items. But, since neither of these actions occurred, no one’s rights have been violated. Scream and shout all you want, but we’re willing to bet that you can’t offer us one instance where rights have been violated.
What this whole argument is about is that users of these four methods of contraception don’t want to pay for it. Not wanting to admit their own greed, they make up stories about the government controlling their reproductive systems and how all women should side with them because this is what’s going on and nothing else. They ignore and twist the facts, use ridiculous scenarios such as Hobby Lobby sells products from China and invest in companies that produce birth control pills and operate heavily on the hypothetical: Well, if Hobby Lobby is allowed to strip our reproductive rights away from us like this, the next thing that will happen is a Muslim-run company will be able to force their employees to wear burkas as part of their religious rights.
Well, you know what they say about operating on a hypothetical. Do that and five million poor people are left without health insurance.
Again, the louder and more dramatic the argument becomes, the less people think. They are so overwhelmed by the idea of possibly being forced to wear Muslim garb and being denied vaccinations that they don’t bother to compare the two and see that apples and oranges are very different.
For starters, having an employee not having coverage for an IUD or morning after pill does not cause a possible health risk to the employee herself nor her coworkers like denying coverage for vaccinations will. Unplanned pregnancy, although viewed by many as a nuisance rather than what it actually is, is not contagious. And, once more, nobody is being forced to do anything if they work for Hobby Lobby where requiring the use of burkas would be.
So it looks like we’re back to you don’t want to pay for it yourself. And, as much as you probably still will continue to wail about your rights being taken away, it seems that the only thing that will make you happy is to take away the rights of the company. You don’t want Hobby Lobby’s religious beliefs to be forced onto you, but it’s more than fine to have your non-religious views forced onto them. Never mind that they offer coverage of 16 forms of birth control – you want it all and you want someone else to pay for it. That’s the very definition of greed.
Wow, you had a corporate CEO hiding inside you all the time and didn’t know it.
Someone had said not to recognize the situations around the world in which women have it far, far worse because that makes women here look like a bunch of crybabies. Sorry to offend, but it does. You’re not even crying over spilled milk at this point. You’re crying over the idea that you might spill your milk.
The sad thing is that there are so many things to fight for in this country with both sides giving birth (no pun intended) to some ridiculous notions. We look forward to the day when abortion and gay marriage are completely off the election table because both should be guaranteed a permanent legal status in this country that cannot be taken away by executive order. But, as long as there are still conservative candidates stuck eras behind the rest of us, why not use your time to plead your case on why abortion is here to stay? Or why two people in love, whether a man and a woman or two men, should always have the ability to celebrate their union and make it official if they want?
Instead, your method of attack is exaggeration, insults and to create a mass hysteria. Sorry to say, but the longer you cling onto this idea that your rights have been taken away from you or that Hobby Lobby is directly interfering with your right to choose, the more ridiculous you look.
If you want to provide us with a legitimate argument on why this decision is going to ruin the lives of women everywhere, our comments section is always open. But if you keep going on with imagined rights violations or theorize “if Hitler #2 was to start a company and refused to hire Jews, would that be ok”, we’re going to continue siding with Hobby Lobby and feel nothing but an enormous amount of pity for how easily manipulated women out there have become.
What a waste of passion.
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