[Vision2020] RE. Fine points

[Scott Dredge]

The Hobby Lobby plan provides coverage for birth control pills.  You (and others here on viz) might very well be right that the Green's motives are about 'not allowing women [reproductive choice]'.  Only they'd know.  It's not that much of stretch for me to give them the benefit of the doubt that they simply don't want be involved with plan B and IUDs.  After that it just boils down to a question of whether or not the government has the right to force Hobby Lobby to provide insurance coverage for plan B and IUDs against the wishes of the owners.  That question has been answered.

I don't think that this a particularly difficult problem to solve.  It just boils down to 1) providing women easy access to birth control at little to no cost to the women, and 2) ensuring that none of the cost is paid for by entities wishing to opt out based on so-called legitimate religious objections.  Justices Alito and Kennedy made mention of this type of scenario in their majority opinions.

This pretty much means that the government would need to step in and cover the objectionable (to some) birth control which would be a quadruple win for women (low/no cost), businesses (no cost), insurance companies (no cost, maybe even a profit), birth control suppliers (could be a huge windfall due to gouging the deep pocketed government).

Ultimately I see this issue being resolved gracefully (as I deemed it) for all parties via court cases that will be on the Supreme Court's docket in the next session.

-Scott

Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 20:56:21 -0700
From: lmccollough at gmail.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] RE. Fine points

In my mind, from what has been reported, this is either a publicity stunt (to gather conservative customers) or a measure to reduce cost of business by the Green family and HL. As it is now established that they invest in the companies that profit from the very things they claim to abhor on religious grounds. There are many mutual funds and investment tools one can invest with to follow either "justice principles", "green principles", or "religious principles", etc.. HL overtly elects to not follow their "deep" principles with their monetary business decisions, as exhibited by their own investment behavior.

What I do not understand is why it has not come up that women's reproductive health medications have, for years, had more than a single reason for being prescribed. While both viagra and the morning after pill may have a single use; I personally know of many women who have been prescribed birth control pills due to overly heavy menstrual flow, (to ameliorate anemia), or fluctuating hormone levels that birth control pills bring into balance, for instance. 

This is not about religious beliefs being compromised. IMHO, this is about not allowing women, adult women to have equal access to prescribed medications to improve their quality of life.

I only hope that women everywhere will quit opening their wallets the the Green family.

But that is my opinion.
Lynn McCollough


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