In the latest concession, the White House announced Friday that the rule requiring employers to provide free contraceptive coverage will not apply to a type of plan used by about 200,000 college and graduate school students. Administration officials now say that due to “technical legal reasons” the rule does not extend to so-called self-insured student plans. Under these “self-insured” plans, colleges and universities collect premiums directly from students, and then use these resources to pay for students’ health care. For the majority of students with coverage on campuses across the country—about 800,000—schools purchase coverage from insurance companies on their behalf. These students will have access to birth control coverage. Religious institutions, including some universities, have complained that providing contraceptives to students through their insurance plans is at odds with their “religious beliefs.” In a perverse twist in regard to this latest exemption, universities will now be allowed to deny contraceptive coverage to young women covered by plans financed by the students themselves. One indication of the lengths the Obama administration is willing to go to satisfy anti-democratic religious bigotry is the variety of schemes being considered to aid those employers that refuse to provide access to birth control on religious grounds.
Thanks to Barry's Capitulation,
more and more attacks against contraceptive access have resulted.
If there hadn't been the Griswold decision by the USSC nearly fifty years ago, these attackers would go after all contraceptive access. Right now there is a bunch of blather over the insurance company coverage and taxpayer money or religious beliefs rather than simply the right of women to have contraception altogether.
Today it's denial because of religious beliefs, tomorrow it will be wholesale denial of women's reproductive rights (stemming in large part from those same religious beliefs):
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