Granted, without a TV antenna or cable, my news is delivered via internet. The lovely thing about the internet, is I can choose what I read or view. With that in mind, I freely confess that I read nearly zero news. Yup, I am admitting it...nearly none. Why be so willfully ignorant? Because I'm happier that way.
This does not stop the random news link from popping up on my Facebook page, so occasionally I hear about something I may want to read more about. Or not. Depends on my involvement on Pinterest at the time.
And, every once in awhile, something BIG happens. HUGE. GI-GAN-TOR. And it's everywhere on Facebook. Links to news stories, opinion pieces, status updates, memes, you get the drift.
There was a BIG one this week...the Supreme Court decision to allow Hobby Lobby to deny birth control coverage in their insurance plan.
*screeching brakes*
HOLY SHIT. The Supreme Court had to decide this?
Yeah, yeah, I know. If I was at all familiar with Obamacare/National Health Plan//Communist Chemtrail Directive or whatever it is you people are calling it, I would assume that all birth control is now considered a covered expense. Or is it? My own insurance company must have missed that memo, because they've never covered birth control of any kind. Didn't stop me from getting a shot in my ass every three months to make sure the baby making machine was shut down. But whatever the case, my limited knowledge of such things tells me this was something Hobby Lobby felt they should be exempt from covering, and took it all the way to the Supreme Court to defend their stance.
I'll be honest. I do not understand what has people so up in arms over this. Again, in my limited ignorance, I believe Hobby Lobby based their argument upon religious beliefs. Is THAT what has people so twisted into knots? Is it because Jesus loves all the little children so they think that means more children? Is this about contraceptives like Plan B and they feel they have a religious right to defend their pro-life stance? From the few things I have read, they DO cover some contraceptives, just not all.
You know what? I actually don't care what their reasoning is. They felt they had a defense against required coverage, and they took legal action to enforce it. Apparently, the Justices felt the same. End of story.
No.
Not the end of the story, at least not on Facebook. People are shouting and screaming from the rooftops about women's rights.
Women's rights?
Did my right to go to my OB/GYN and get a pill just disappear?
No. It did not. Funny, I STILL have that choice, just as I've had that choice for the past 35 years.
Choices are a funny, quirky little thing. I have the choice to never shop at a Hobby Lobby if I find them a disgrace to women all over the world. I have a choice to feel that they are corporate pigs. I have the choice to work for them or not work for them. Should I choose to work for them, I can choose to not take part in their uterus-mongering health insurance plan. I can choose instead to find a women's center that will base my contraceptive choices on my wages, which would probably equal to far less than a corporation's health insurance plan run by Jesus. I can choose. So tell me again, what rights did I just love over my baby making machine?
In the meantime, while Facebook (and the rest of the internet) continues to rant and rave, I wonder what legislation has been pushed through while we got pissed off over choices that we still have?
I think I'll go back to Pinterest and look for pictures of kittens. Willful ignorance. It's my happy place.
If you look at the comments under one of these posts that is ranting and raving and you weave down you find like two people who have calmly given a rational reason behind why they dislike the ruling. One I found said that it wasn't so much what Hobbly Lobby wont cover but that this ruling may have opened doors to some other aspects of women's health and it might be hard to shut the door after this ruling. But it's tons of work going through all of those comments of hate for the President and irrational yelling and insults. Glittery poop is better to look at than the comments sections.
ReplyDeleteI just enjoy the hypocrisy....while they're playing all hot and bothered over being forced to pay for certain birth control, they silence the fact that they've been willingly covering it since the law required it back in 2000....while investing huge amounts of money in the companies that make them. I'm all for standing up for your morals, but don't take the high ground when you're dragging your ass in the dirt. That's the last I'm gonna say about it....
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