After posting an article which discussed the irony of Hobby Lobby refusing to cover such contraception as the morning-after pill for women, all the while covering things such as Viagra and vasectomies for men, I received the following comment in return:
"There is a huge difference between an erectile dysfunction pill and an abortion pill. An erectile dysfunction pill can help create life. A morning after pill ends life. Comparing the two is flat out ignorant. This author should be embarrassed.
What the uninformed do not know (and articles like this don't care to publish) is that Hobby Lobby still covers 16 of the 20 birth control methods that other companies have to cover. The only 4 that it doesn't cover are birth terminations, not control methods."
Here is my response to that:
So, let me get this straight... You've told me before that you're against abortion, are against contraception coverage for women in employer-based healthcare plans (especially with regard to the four you label as being birth-terminators), are against paid maternity leave, but think it's perfectly fine for employers to cover things such as Viagra and vasectomies for men's healthcare plans, because unlike the morning-after pill (and the like), Viagra is a life-creator. Is that right?
First off, it's a tad ironic that you label those whom disagree with you on the matter as "uninformed," because the science and health-based communities overwhelmingly disagree with you on the four before-mentioned forms of contraception as being "birth-terminators":
"Emergency contraceptive pills work before pregnancy begins. According to leading medical authorities – such as the National Institutes of Health and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists – pregnancy begins when the fertilized egg implants in the lining of a woman's uterus. Implantation begins five to seven days after sperm fertilizes the egg, and the process is completed several days later. Emergency contraception will not work if a woman is already pregnant."
In other words, while emergency contraception may make it more difficult for a woman to get pregnant, it will not terminate her pregnancy. So, according to a large majority of scientists and healthcare professionals, emergency contraception is a definite form of birth control. So, for Hobby Lobby to cover one of the ultimate forms of birth control in vasectomies for men and refuse to cover some forms of birth control for women, it comes across as a bit hypocritical. It'd be the ultimate sad irony if a male Hobby Lobby employee on Viagra raped a female Hobby Lobby employee, since the man's "life-creator" would have been covered by the company, whereas the woman's emergency contraception wouldn't have been.
Emergency contraception helps prevent unwanted pregnancies and through that, helps to prevent abortions, so why are so many die-hard anti-abortionists adamantly opposed to emergency contraception? Again, ironically, most scientists and healthcare professionals would likely say it's because they're simply "uninformed."
No matter how much we may try, men will never fully understand what it is women go through during pregnancy. We'll never know what it feels to have a being growing inside of us for 9 months. We'll never know what it would feel like to get raped and fear being pregnant as a result. We'll never know what it feels like to have a being growing inside of us for 3/4 of the year, to not get paid when taking time off work thereafter, and then to have to leave the child when heading back to work a few weeks later. We'll never know what it feels like to have the opposite sex see and treat us like sex objects, all the while they attempt to decrease our reproductive rights, before running when word has it that we're pregnant. Perhaps it's time men stop trying to control women's bodies and lives, and trust the science and healthcare professionals to do their jobs in order to better the odds of us having healthy women/mothers, healthy kids, and healthy families. Whatever label one wants to put on that, I'll call that being "pro-life" tenfold over inaccurately decrying a form of birth-control of terminating pregnancies.
http://ec.princeton.edu/questions/ecabt.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/30/hobby-lobby-viagra_n_5543916.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/01/hobby-lobby-christian_n_5545618.html
"There is a huge difference between an erectile dysfunction pill and an abortion pill. An erectile dysfunction pill can help create life. A morning after pill ends life. Comparing the two is flat out ignorant. This author should be embarrassed.
What the uninformed do not know (and articles like this don't care to publish) is that Hobby Lobby still covers 16 of the 20 birth control methods that other companies have to cover. The only 4 that it doesn't cover are birth terminations, not control methods."
Here is my response to that:
So, let me get this straight... You've told me before that you're against abortion, are against contraception coverage for women in employer-based healthcare plans (especially with regard to the four you label as being birth-terminators), are against paid maternity leave, but think it's perfectly fine for employers to cover things such as Viagra and vasectomies for men's healthcare plans, because unlike the morning-after pill (and the like), Viagra is a life-creator. Is that right?
First off, it's a tad ironic that you label those whom disagree with you on the matter as "uninformed," because the science and health-based communities overwhelmingly disagree with you on the four before-mentioned forms of contraception as being "birth-terminators":
"Emergency contraceptive pills work before pregnancy begins. According to leading medical authorities – such as the National Institutes of Health and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists – pregnancy begins when the fertilized egg implants in the lining of a woman's uterus. Implantation begins five to seven days after sperm fertilizes the egg, and the process is completed several days later. Emergency contraception will not work if a woman is already pregnant."
In other words, while emergency contraception may make it more difficult for a woman to get pregnant, it will not terminate her pregnancy. So, according to a large majority of scientists and healthcare professionals, emergency contraception is a definite form of birth control. So, for Hobby Lobby to cover one of the ultimate forms of birth control in vasectomies for men and refuse to cover some forms of birth control for women, it comes across as a bit hypocritical. It'd be the ultimate sad irony if a male Hobby Lobby employee on Viagra raped a female Hobby Lobby employee, since the man's "life-creator" would have been covered by the company, whereas the woman's emergency contraception wouldn't have been.
Emergency contraception helps prevent unwanted pregnancies and through that, helps to prevent abortions, so why are so many die-hard anti-abortionists adamantly opposed to emergency contraception? Again, ironically, most scientists and healthcare professionals would likely say it's because they're simply "uninformed."
No matter how much we may try, men will never fully understand what it is women go through during pregnancy. We'll never know what it feels to have a being growing inside of us for 9 months. We'll never know what it would feel like to get raped and fear being pregnant as a result. We'll never know what it feels like to have a being growing inside of us for 3/4 of the year, to not get paid when taking time off work thereafter, and then to have to leave the child when heading back to work a few weeks later. We'll never know what it feels like to have the opposite sex see and treat us like sex objects, all the while they attempt to decrease our reproductive rights, before running when word has it that we're pregnant. Perhaps it's time men stop trying to control women's bodies and lives, and trust the science and healthcare professionals to do their jobs in order to better the odds of us having healthy women/mothers, healthy kids, and healthy families. Whatever label one wants to put on that, I'll call that being "pro-life" tenfold over inaccurately decrying a form of birth-control of terminating pregnancies.
http://ec.princeton.edu/questions/ecabt.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/30/hobby-lobby-viagra_n_5543916.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/01/hobby-lobby-christian_n_5545618.html
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