If we actually lived in a gender-equal society, reproductive rights wouldn't even be *in question*

[Squinch]

26. But why do one person's beliefs trump another person's beliefs?

No one is prohibiting these religious organizations from doing anything. They are just trying to prohibit the religious organizations from limiting access to birth control.

The Little Sisters are not being asked to do anything that is against the tenets of their religion. The government has accommodated these religious groups by making the insurance administrators provide birth control if the religious orders have religious objections, so the Little Sisters are not even being required to provide it. That is more than ample accommodation to ensure people don't have to choose between their jobs and their convictions.

When I was on the pill, for many years, it was $50 a month. Maybe that's my region, I don't know, but that's what it cost. For many people, that is a very significant monthly bill. I was never able to find any charity birth control, and I don't believe that charity birth control really exists in most areas.

Finally, if they are allowed to exempt themselves from our national healthcare in this way, what is to stop companies all over the country from suddenly declaring themselves ethically opposed to other conditions, for example, ectopic pregnancy removal or hysterectomies. Why shouldn't a Jewish owned company refuse to treat any conditions that are uncommon in circumcised men? Why should conservative Muslim owned companies treat skin cancer in women, who they believe should have been protected from the sun since birth? The list could go on and on.

The President has provided ample separation of church and state in this area. Now they are just splitting hairs.