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Hoyo AfrikaJoanna Rothkopf
5/16/16 1:40pm
it was unfair to religious nonprofits who might object to the concept of birth control

You know what? Fuck their feelings. I mean, I don’t like bad nosejobs, however, I’m not given license to legislate them out of existence. Why are people so obsessed with the woman’s body and what she decides to do with it? (Straight) Men need to chill and leave the uterine affairs to the people they actually affect, women.
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  courtHoyo Afrika
  5/16/16 1:48pm
  I like your style very much and so I am following you.
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  I'm Fart and I'm SmunnyHoyo Afrika
  5/16/16 1:48pm
  “(Straight) Men need to chill and leave the uterine affairs to the people they actually affect, women.”
  
  I mean I agree but the people trying to restrict the access were women this time.
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I'm Fart and I'm SmunnyJoanna Rothkopf
5/16/16 1:43pm
My guess is that the direction things were going was shit, because RBG, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Breyer would not do us like this if they thought making a decision would result in a good outcome.

I get what NARAL is saying, but I would rather wait a little longer for the decision than to have the decision go in a way that restricts women’s access to contraception even more.
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  darleeeeeene aka deraaiilleeeeeeneI'm Fart and I'm Smunny
  5/16/16 1:47pm
  the way the court is now, if any cases tie they get bumped to a lower court anyway...so I guess that’s the way the winds were blowing and they were trying to avoid tying up the court with this?
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  I'm Fart and I'm Smunnydarleeeeeene aka deraaiilleeeeeene
  5/16/16 1:51pm
  Yeah but this way there is no previous decision on this specific matter. I’m not an expert in this area, but I’m pretty sure it is better when they are going to see a case again to not have any previous decisions on that specific case.
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courtJoanna Rothkopf
5/16/16 1:40pm
Oh those courageous celibate little sisters of the poor and the BURDEN of their faith! How burdensome and miserable and chaste and faithful and poor they are, just like God intended. Do they throw rocks at eachother to celebrate the courageous miserable, horrific burden of their existence?
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  QuanYincourt
  5/16/16 2:08pm
  I’ve mentioned her before, but one of my wife’s 3 living relatives is a retired nun. She lives in an assisted living facility in New Jersey now, and she is absolutely LIVID about all this birth control nonsense. Like, she acknowledges that it’s a component of the Catholic faith, but cannot figure out “What gives a bunch of women who aren’t allowed to have sex the right to tell women who are allowed to have sex that they can’t use birth control?” She thinks these lawsuits are an embarrassment to the church and to the order.
  
  Sister Jean has zero fucks left to give and no qualms whatsoever about calling it like she sees it. My favorite “Jean-ism”: “I have far more concern about what goes on in people’s hearts and minds and souls than I do about what goes on in their bedrooms.”
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  courtQuanYin
  5/16/16 2:10pm
  She sounds like a bad ass lady.
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TheBurnersMyDestinationJoanna Rothkopf
5/16/16 1:32pm
Great, so can we get a Justice nominated now? I know half the morons who are refusing to even consider Scalia's replacement were just waiting for this case to be over before they inevitably have to put a moderate-liberal on the bench, so can we do it already?
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  Flying SquidTheBurnersMyDestination
  5/16/16 1:37pm
  I thought they were waiting for Count Blackula to leave the White House so they could nominate someone who would outlaw women forever.
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  LeighWFlying Squid
  5/16/16 1:43pm
  That’s crazy-talk.
  
  If they outlawed women who’d make their sandwiches and do their laundry?
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sybannJoanna Rothkopf
5/16/16 3:16pm
Employers should never get to decide what their employees do with their benefits. It’s ridiculously patriarchal. If I get vacation time are you going to tell me I have to use it to go to the beach if I’m pale and allergic to salt water? This is yet another on my stabby list. Don’t provide health insurance and take the hit. Let your people go on the ACA and make it stronger. (Yes, I am insured and yes, it’s a pain but no more of one that the shit I went through with UHC through and employer).
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  sybannsybann
  5/16/16 3:33pm
  “Than the shit” “Through an” - god.
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  Marzipan in your Pie Platesybann
  5/16/16 4:29pm
  Oh damn! Excellent point. If I work for Hobby Lobby, can I take my company-paid vacation time and go to a nude beach? Or a Satan convention?
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jinniJoanna Rothkopf
5/16/16 1:35pm
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  Mike Pipper Super GIF Enthusiastjinni
  5/16/16 1:43pm
  DAMMIT!
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LeighWJoanna Rothkopf
5/16/16 1:51pm
I love when people use condoms as an excuse
“why do they need the pill covered? Just use condoms! Condoms are everywhere!”

But no one says
“Why do they need Viagra covered? Just tape a stick to your junk! Sticks are everywhere!”
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  PersnicketyPantsLeighW
  5/16/16 8:04pm
  The single biggest illustration that the Catholic Church is full of shit is that they have no problem with boner pills. They will gladly cover them. And they know that most men who take boner pills aren’t doing it to pro create, but to have sex when they are old. They just gladly look the other way. If women aren’t allowed to have sex except for procreation, then why aren’t they suing over coverage of boner pills? Because a bunch of old mostly white men, sympathize with a bunch of old men, that’s why.
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MayotonillaJoanna Rothkopf
5/16/16 1:46pm
So there is no war on women?
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Executor ElassusJoanna Rothkopf
5/16/16 1:58pm
the parties on remand should be afforded an opportunity to arrive at an approach going forward that accommodates petitioners’ religious exercise while at the same time ensuring that women covered by petitioners’ health plans ‘receive full and equal health coverage, including contraceptive coverage,”

Bwahahahahaha haha … ha … hooooo

Yeah, those two things are, thanks to the assholes on one side, positioned to be mutually exclusive. The plaintiffs’ argument is that no woman working for them, by any means besides one that punishes her by making her pay out-of-pocket (and even this is only grudgingly tolerated because they can’t forcibly prevent their employees from buying legal medical products), should be able to obtain birth control. There is no way to reconcile that stance with providing women with the misfortune to work there with birth control coverage.

Well, there is, and it’s a single-payer healthcare system that has fuck-all to do with asshole employers using their employees’ medical needs to fuck them over, which every civilized country on Earth has except the god-blessed US America: because if there’s one thing we love, it’s letting massive, obscenely powerful institutions composed of aging reactionary fascists shit all over everybody who’s too fucking poor and powerless to stop them.
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roguemarvelJoanna Rothkopf
5/16/16 2:08pm
There are studies that suggest that nuns should be taking BC for health reasons. Since many nuns are virgins or will never give birth or breast feed, they are at a higher risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer and BC could lower that risk.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/should-nu...
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  NonServiam's Ghostroguemarvel
  5/16/16 2:52pm
  Not to mention that nuns have already been given a dispensation to use birth control in areas where rape of missionaries is rampant. The Vatican was ok with that.
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