Stupid Complaint #6: “The employers are not being forced to give contraception to their employees. They are being forced to give them insurance coverage which includes contraception at no additional cost. No one’s conscience is being violated here.”
Basic Reply: There is no difference of any significance between those two things. Whether it is being provided as part of a larger packaged service is irrelevant.
Further Explanation:
This is probably the feeblest complaint. Here the idea is that by buying a package that contains contraception for an employee, the employer is somehow not really buying contraception for the employee.
This would be a bit like buying a person a cable package which includes access to the history channel... and then claiming you didn't buy the person the access to the history channel.
To take this one step further, imagine the government forces employers to buy cable packages for their employees. Then it mandates that the History Channel must be in those cable packages. Anyone with common sense would accurately observe that the State was forcing employers to buy the history channel for their employees.
Well, that's what is going on with the HHS mandate.
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