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delphipsmith ([personal profile] delphipsmith) wrote2012-03-18 08:19 pm
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...and it was drafted by a woman...

A proposed law in Arizona would apparently allow ANY employer, not just religious-affiliated institutions, to deny contraception coverage and possibly even fire female workers for using birth control pills for a "non-medical" purpose. The Republican-backed (oooh, color ME surprised) HB 2625 bill would allow bosses to ask female employees whether they are using contraception and request proof they are using the pills for non-sexual reasons, if the employer is morally or ethically or religiously opposed to...well, to sex, I guess. It doesn't mention any exemption if you're married, meaning it can't be premarital sex they object to, so it must just be sex in general. WTF???

I really don't understand what's going on around here. How can anyone not think this is absolutely nuts? And why can't the GOP go back to focusing on the economy and leave all this moral stuff to people's individual consciences???

There's more here and here, if you can stomach it.

[identity profile] igrockspock.livejournal.com 2012-03-19 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Mysteriously, men are welcome to all the Viagra they want, and they don't even have to certify that their erections are for baby-making purposes...
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[personal profile] arcanetrivia 2012-03-19 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I just wonder who they think they're going to be having sex with, if not all these women they are telling to never have sex...

[identity profile] lady-of-clunn.livejournal.com 2012-03-19 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
I literally cannot imagine something as oppressive as that.

How does America make it through the year without at least five uprisings?

[identity profile] ennyousai.livejournal.com 2012-03-19 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
The weirdest part of it was the argument that, "We don't live in the Soviet Union, therefore we must interrogate women about how they use contraception!" What the fuck?!?!?!? If anyone tried to use that argument in any kind of academic paper, it would be a FAILURE. Because it makes no goddamn sense.

[identity profile] veritas03.livejournal.com 2012-03-19 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
And why can't the GOP go back to focusing on the economy and leave all this moral stuff to people's individual consciences?

Exactly!! Not that Republican/Conservative lawmakers apparently ever do this, BUT if they ever sat down and made a prioritized list of crucial issues in this country (you know - the kind that actually need legislation), I just don't understand how something like this idiocy would outrank... almost anything else. This kind of shit makes me insane!