Economist Andrew Francis has done some regression analysis on historical sex data and argues that the cure of syphilis, not the birth control pill, is the cause of the sexual revolution. This is interesting: Francis also notes that historical syphilis trends very closely mimic the AIDS epidemic of the last few decades. The rate of …
Contraception Clusterfuck
Rage Against the Contraception Machine
Opposition to the birth control benefit in the ACA is becoming deranged. Conservatives who rail against what is simply a requirement that a full range of *earned* healthcare benefits be offered to female employees are acting like the Obama administration is perpetrating the greatest infringement of religious freedom since the beginning of time. It’s nonsense. …
First They Lose to Alabama, and Then They Get Booted Out of Court: Notre Dame Can’t Catch A Break
A federal judge booted Notre Dame’s lawsuit complaining about the birth control benefit out of court — on a technicality. Judge Robert Miller ruled that the lawsuit wasn’t ripe, and that the lawsuit might never be ripe. (In order for a lawsuit to proceed in court, it must be ripe — in other words, shit …
Birth Control Benefit Nay-Sayers Take Up Yarns in Support of Hobby Lobby
Hobby Lobby is risking paying upwards of one million dollars in fines per day just so they can thumb their nose at the birth control benefit provision in the ACA which requires employers to offer contraception access without copay to their employees. On Saturday, thousands of yarn lovers rallied at Hobby Lobby storesand demanded that righteous …
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Hobby Lobby To Defy Birth Control Benefit Mandate and Hopefully Go Bankrupt [updated]
Yesterday, I told you that Justice Sotomayor rejected Hobby Lobby’s emergency appeal, thus requiring Hobby Lobby to suck it up, provide contraception access without copay to its employees, and wait for its case to proceed in district court. Welp, Hobby Lobby is none too pleased with that decision, and has chosen to throw a million-dollar …
Justice Sotomayor Rejects Hobby Lobby’s Emergency Birth Control Benefit Appeal
Yesterday in an in-chambers opinion, Justice Sotomayor declined Hobby Lobby’s request for an emergency application for injunction pending appeal of the Tenth Circuit’s decision denying Hobby Lobby’s request for preliminary injunction. That was a legal mouthful, so here’s what it means: Hobby Lobby wanted to block application of the birth control benefit because of Jesus. …
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Religious Arguments Against the Birth Control Benefit in the ACA Defy Logic
The various organizations that have sued the Obama Administration, claiming that the birth control benefit in the Affordability Care Act violates the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, are touting arguments about religious liberty that are intellectually dishonest as well as wholly lacking in common sense. These arguments prioritize the “religious freedom” to …
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