One more step closer to The Handmaid's Tale.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

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[hardblue.livejournal.com]

All employees should follow the faith
of their employers - what can more American than that?

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

I do wonder what will happen if a Jehovah's Witness owned company wants to exclude blood transfusions from their employees' health insurance. Would the Supremes rule differently if the issue is excluding something they believe is 'life saving?' How about excluding insulin that is derived from pigs for Jewish or Muslim owned firms? Not life saving in the same way as blood because there are other types of insulin available.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

[stout-john.livejournal.com]

Does this mean they won't cover viagra and those things?

[rose-cat.livejournal.com]

One more step closer to The Handmaid's Tale.

OK Open Carry in the Capitol, and we're just about there...

[madam-shapo.livejournal.com]

You still can pay for your own contraceptives. What's the problem? If you guys, don't want the woman to pay for it, be a gentleman - pay for your female.

[new-wave-witch.livejournal.com]

At least this helps demonstrate how stupid it is to maintain a system where people rely on their employer for medical coverage.

[op-tech-glitch.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly convinced that some folks out there are intentionally using Handmaid's Tale as an instruction guide at this point.

After the past week of a few halfway sensible sounding decisions coming down (the buffer zone case notwithstanding), I just had the almost psychic sense they were preparing to fuck us all as powerfully hard as possible with this one and the public sector union case. Women, nonwhites, low-income people, people belonging to minority religions/no religion and of course all of the above will bear the worst brunt of it, of course, but it's ultimately all of us getting shat upon with this.

And let's be absolutely clear here, this was never about anybody's principled stance against birth control (http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2014/04/01/hobby-lobby-401k-discovered-to-be-investor-in-numerous-abortion-and-contraception-products-while-claiming-religious-objection/), it was always - first, foremost, and completely - about solidifying the legal "right" of the entity that signs your paycheck to own your ass lock, stock, and bodily fluids.

Fun fact #1: before our local HL occupied the space it does, it used to be a store called Hills, a low end sort of K-Mart chain based on the east coast, for those who never heard of it before it went under. I worked there for 8 months, and it's the one job I flat out walked away from with little or no notice after my direct supervisor (female, no less) told me straight to my face, "We own you" in those exact words. Fun fact #2: that was in mid-1991, shortly before Clarence Thomas' ascension to the SC(R)OTUS, and now he and his 4 "fellow" regressives have effectively codified that into law.

Corporations ain't people till I can kick one straight in the nuts, and if those 5 guys on the court are secretly clamoring for an all-out revolution, complete with guillotines, people being strung up from light poles and blood running through the streets, they certainly seem to be going about it in exactly the right way.