cusman on 02 July 2014
| kanageddaamen said: For me this wasn't about the affordable care act, religion, or birth control, but the idea that an employer can dictate what you can and can't do with compensation you earn by working for them. I see no difference between "As part of being an employee, you earn health insurance, but I don't want you to use that health insurance to get the morning after pill" and "As part of being an employee, you earn $800 a week, but I don't want you to use that $800 to get the morning after pill" The employer pays for both your health insurance and your salary, what is the difference? Can an employer fire an employee for using their salary to get, say an abortion, if it goes against their religious beliefs? It's my opinion that I earned the health insurance as part of my compensation for employment, and, just like my salary, my employer has no business in what I do with that compensation. The employer does not "buy contraception," it compensate's its employees with health insurance. The health insurance companies are what pay for the contraception... |
The only reasonable way to look at it.
