The Supreme Court and Fox News Channel: Partners in Stupid
The Supreme Court decision in Burwell v Hobby Lobby Stores continues to confound me. It’s difficult to get beyond the basic dumbness of the conservative justices who utterly failed to recognize that the Affordable Care Act absolutely does not mandate that corporations buy employee insurance policies featuring abortion-inducing or abortifacient pills such as RU486. The law only mandates that employees cover emergency contraception that either prevents ovulation or fertilization or both — not implantation of a fertilized egg, which can be defined as an abortion.
And yet, predictably, Fox News Channel and the conservative entertainment complex (credit as always to David Frum) continued throughout the day Monday to repeat the lie that Hobby Lobby and other small businesses with religious owners were being forced by evil Obama to pay for employee health insurance plans that cover abortion pills (which, by the way, are perfectly legal however stigmatized).
How do we know they’re all lying?
1) The government provides subsidies for some small businesses to help pay for their employee insurance plans, but the Hyde Amendment forbids the government from financing any and all abortions. So if the government mandated abortion coverage, it would be unable to subsidize any insurance plans. But the government doesn’t consider any of the contraceptive pills and devices to be abortifacients, therefore the mandate and the subsidies don’t conflict with each other.
2) Why doesn’t the government consider these contraceptives to be abortifacients? Because medical experts (not including Eric Bolling) agree that emergency contraception meds mandated by the ACA aren’t abortion-inducing.
http://thedailybanter.com/2014/07/supreme-court-fox-news-channel-partners-stupid/
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