Employer and employee rights
Politics is all about framing the issues, the choice of
words. If Hobby Lobby were choosing
their employees’ birth control, that would be wrong. They are only contesting whether they should
be paying for them, at least some of them.
They are not taking anything away from their employees. These employees were quite content to work
for them before the government starting telling employers more things that they
have to do and giving people new rights that they never had before.
My wife and I paid for our birth control. We never expected that anyone should pay for
it for us. I have union insurance, which
was always considered good insurance, but birth control was never a part of the
plan as far as I can recall. Haven’t
look recently.
There was a good article I read recently that asked the
question, if something is a right, does that mean that the government should provide
it for us? Using the Second Amendment as
a test case to answer the question, if I have a right to keep and bear arms,
does that mean that the government should provide me with a gun? If the answer is no, then should the government
see that women are provided with free contraceptives if they have the right to use
them?
I had a job once that I left because the health insurance
was getting worse. I had had cancer, and
the rates were rapidly climbing with higher deductibles. Nobody would have thought that my employer
had to provide a certain level of insurance to me. They did what they could.