Well, well, well.... Planned Parenthood believes in the right to choose to kill unborn children, but they don't believe in a right for doctors, insurers, medical facilities or other personnel to choose to not participate in other person's lifestyles of choice or their choices like abortion or providing abortion causing birth control pills like the morning after pill and etc. The mantra of choice rings a little hollow when the people advocating for choice force us to comply with their choices.
Here is a lament from Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards (Ann Richard's daughter) about how awful it is that companies like Union Pacific do not have to provide contraceptive coverage. It's from their email update Friday March 16, 2007 "A Shocking Court Decision Against Birth Control."
"We want to alert you that yesterday women's health suffered a significant setback. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued a shameful ruling that limits access to birth control. It all started when Union Pacific, the largest railroad in North America, made a reprehensible decision to cover Viagra and deny coverage for birth control.
"Birth control is basic health care and insurance plans should cover it — just like they cover other prescription drugs. Contraceptive coverage provides women with critical access to birth control they might not otherwise be able to afford. Yet, Union Pacific deliberately chose to exclude coverage of prescription contraceptives from its health care plan. And now, in a decision made public yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has decided to let them get away with it."
Spare me your tears Cecile.
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