More evidence that rights-based ethical systems have flawed foundations.

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Mnementh said:

richardhutnik said:

Soleron said:
It's easily solved by saying no one's rights have priority over any others, so your right to religious belief that contraception is wrong doesn't extend to stopping others' right to access contraception.

Religious rights are not special, they are a specific case to freedom of thought and speech, but that doesn't mean freedom of action or a right to dictate how things are going to be.

The issue isn't that the Catholic Church is trying to ban insurance period for covering birth control, just that Catholic employers MUST provide it.  It goes from religious beliefs to property rights issues.  Do employers have a right to do what they want with their own property or not?

You can't take the easy way out by say no one's rights have priority over any other, because in this case, the issue requires one person's rights to have priority over another one.  And you ended up placing religious rights lower than other rights.

If one person has the right to use contraception it doesn't violate another persons right to not use contraception (because of religion or whatever). And the catholic church as employer is no person, so the concept of personal rights doesn't apply here.

Here is a question ...

Since everyone has the right to bear arms would it be reasonable for a government to mandate that an company has to provide their employee with a weapon if they can not afford one?