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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
You really don't see any meaningful distinction between having access to buying birth control yourself and compelling your employer to help buy it for you?
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I would agree today's debate on BC is different... but describing this debate as "compelling your employer to help buy it for you" is disingenuous at best. Major medical advisory groups have recommended birth control be considered preventative health care and per the Health Care Reform act, preventative care is to be covered by insurance without copay. Women pay their premiums just like men and it's about damn time their coverage actually met the unique needs of a female body instead of treating men's and women's bodies as "the same" by providing default male coverage for both... in other words, men's needs have been fully met for YEARS while women's needs are considered "extra." That's nowhere near equality. If employers are going to provide health insurance in lieu of wages that coverage should meet the actual health care needs of both sexes... not just one.
By the way, that mandate covers all FDA approved birth control and sterilization, thus men's vasectomies are covered without copay as well... yet interestingly nobody seems to be whining about men getting their snips covered... hmmmm...
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