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There's one more step SCOTUS

Beetlejuice — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 21:30:05 +0000

There's one more step SCOTUS needs to take to earn that distinction ... decide in favor for a "business entity" to review your past voting records to determine if your political ideology is aligned with their corporate political philosophy.

But have you noted,

Beetlejuice — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 21:22:29 +0000

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But have you noted, republican controlled state legislatures have been occupied with passing legislation clipping the wings off voters who disproportional vote for democrats? The mid-terms will be the watermark to see if their efforts bear fruit. If they do succeed, then I suspect they'll be redoubling their efforts to minimize woman's right to exercise their right to vote for the general election in 2016.

Yes you are right. They had

trkingmomoe — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 00:30:14 +0000

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Yes you are right. They had been providing insurance to cover all reproductive health care before ACA. They are political active before this and took a stand that others thought would unravel ACA and hurt the AA President. It is all about political power. If they can't win in the ballot box they have a court that is in their back pocket. That is what all the corporate person hood is all about. The court is now a tool for the oligarchy. Eventually the political branches of our government will have to assert themselves against the over reach of the court.

One other thought: isn't the

Verified Atheist — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:11:17 +0000

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One other thought: isn't the health care cost of contraception much cheaper than the health care cost of pregnancy and child birth, to say nothing of the health care cost of the child after birth? If anyone has the numbers on that, it'd be much appreciated. I'm guessing that even a (reproductive) life-time of contraceptive care is cheaper than a single pregnancy and birth.

Here's one detail that I

Verified Atheist — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:03:52 +0000

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Here's one detail that I don't see anyone discussing, so maybe I'm misinformed, but isn't it true that (under RomneyCare) the Hobby Lobby stores in Massachusetts had to obey the same mandate prior to the passage of ObamaCare? Isn't it also true that they didn't complain about it?

Since Richard isn't here

trkingmomoe — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:26:22 +0000

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Since Richard isn't here today.

Going Obsolete Party's

trkingmomoe — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 03:46:05 +0000

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Going Obsolete Party's Robert's Court. I wonder if they will make his statue face the wall.

Thanks for the link. Even if few women loose their coverage, they are tired of this crap from the right.

You're right, Ramona. 100

Doctor Cleveland — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 03:35:22 +0000

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You're right, Ramona. 100 percent right. Totally crazy, unsustainable, setting impossiple precedents.

And any Roman Catholic justice who votes to empower private religious bigotry has either forgotten the history of Roman Catholics in this country or refused to understand it.

But it will hurt their bottom

trkingmomoe — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 03:28:30 +0000

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But it will hurt their bottom line. The organized protests against Rush L. has worked and he has lost a big part of his advertisers and also major market radio stations. Advertisers are now refusing to buy time with AM stations unless they promise not to put them in time slots during Rush's show. His ratings are now in the toilet.

Chick fil a CEO just made an apology a month or so ago for his stand on gay marriage. That boycott hurt. Enough people just decided in the south not to eat there.

Women are really mad at this. I expect many will just not shop there for Chines imports made by women who are forced to have just one child. Where is their moral religious stand on that.

This nonsensical decision

rmrd0000 — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 03:17:49 +0000

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This nonsensical decision separating out "closely held" corporations could theoretically exempt 90% of US corporations and effect 52% of US workers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/30/a-lot-of-peopl...

The religious beliefs of the workers are trumped by the religious beliefs of the corporations.

The Supreme Court enforces a barrier against protestors but denied a barrier for clinics supplying abortion. The Court said that remedies were no longer needed for voter suppression so they gutted the Voting Rights Act. Texas and North Carolina immediately began suppressing votes. The current Supreme Court will go down as one of the worst in history.