{"id":183371,"date":"2014-12-14T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/14\/welcome-to-the-handmaidens-tale\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T02:38:00","slug":"welcome-to-the-handmaidens-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/14\/welcome-to-the-handmaidens-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Handmaiden&#8217;s Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge in Minnesota just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/lifestyle\/health\/285550311.html\">gave a free pass to employers who don&#8217;t want to cover contraceptives<\/a>.  I&#8217;m wondering when a Jehovah&#8217;s Witness gets to deny coverage for blood transfusions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A federal judge in Minneapolis ruled Monday that the owner of Hastings Ford and Hastings Chrysler Center does not have to pay for health insurance coverage for certain contraceptives such as Plan B, ella emergency contraceptive and certain kinds of IUDs.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Douglas Erickson said in a lawsuit that contraceptives that prevent a fertilized egg from being implanted in a woman\u2019s uterus violate his belief that life begins at conception. Erickson\u2019s businesses have 63 full-time employees and about 15 part-timers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The ruling by U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson is the latest in a string of decisions involving family-owned businesses that have sued to become exempt from a portion of the federal Affordable Care Act because of their religious beliefs.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Planned Parenthood of Minnesota and North and South Dakota issued a statement Tuesday after the ruling became public.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable that we are still fighting for access to birth control in 2014, with some politicians who want to get rid of the birth control benefit completely,\u201d the statement said. \u201cWe know firsthand that access to birth control is both a health care and economic concern for women.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a hearty f%$# you to the Supreme Court over the Hobby Lobby decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge in Minnesota just gave a free pass to employers who don&#8217;t want to cover contraceptives. I&#8217;m wondering when a Jehovah&#8217;s Witness gets to deny coverage for blood transfusions: A federal judge in Minneapolis ruled Monday that the owner of Hastings Ford and Hastings Chrysler Center does not have to pay for health insurance &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,970,975,972,1122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-corruption","category-employment","category-justice","category-reproductive-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}