What if a woman is
on contraceptives because she has three kids at home and would endanger her health if she were to get pregnant with a fourth?
Not exact matches
Because these
contraceptives are not used properly (e.g. some women forget to take the Pill
on a daily basis), the failure rates (from Guttmacher) are 8.7 % and 17.4 % respectively.
Because the birth control cases all focus
on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden»
on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all
contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.
Basing you perceptions
on religion is like using a very distorted lense to view the real world: the result is so perverted by doing it that you come up with bizarre notions like «
contraceptives are bad» «everyone else is going to an eternal torture chamber
because they don't agree with me.»
Some physicians, however, refuse to perform abortions and / or provide
contraceptives precisely
because in their view, having examined the empirical evidence, such as the recent Royal College of Psychiatrists statement
on women's mental health and abortion, these practices contradict the best interests of their patients.
Now, after a complaint was filed by eight faculty members, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that BelmontAbbey is discriminating against women: «By denying prescription contraception drugs, Respondent is discriminating based
on gender
because only females take oral prescription
contraceptives.
Groups like Planned Parenthood have been a godsend
because they work to educate women
on their bodies, provide medical care for women, and pass out free
contraceptives to these married women who otherwise can't afford to prevent children.
«Well I actually got really excited when I heard Speaker Boehner talking about «Plan B»
because I thought finally they've made progress
on a really important women's health issue that I've been working
on,» she said at a press conference with Senate Democrats, referring to the emergency
contraceptive, «Plan B.»
Gorsuch had been considered a top contender early
on because of his opinion in a case about the obligations of employers to provide insurance benefits that include
contraceptives.
I have not included brand names of oral
contraceptives because like a shell game, manufacturers of oral
contraceptives are constantly changing the names, doses and contents of their birth control pills, perhaps to avoid being
on a list like the one below.
I have been
on the
contraceptive pill for a few years and I am stopping,
because I wonder if it is just adding to the problem.
Women
on the pill can not sign up
because oral
contraceptives trick a woman into thinking she's pregnant, which causes her to seek out people with similar genes.
Because contraceptive pills introduce hormones that prevent ovulation and lead to temporary loss of fertility, women's natural preference fixates
on similarity as in natural infertile phases of the cycle.