It's all so breathtakingly dishonest. Rather than transport us to President Franklin Pierce's America, never mind Charlemagne's Europe, the Blunt Amendment would send America hurtling back to January 2012. In that Handmaid's Tale of an America, women were free to buy birth control from their local grocery store or Walmart pharmacy, and religious employers could opt not to subsidize the purchase. What a terrifying time that must have been for America's women.


Religious employers are not subsidizing birth control. They have 2 choices, provide insurance benefits or don't provide them. If this is such a moral conundrum for them why not just cease with insurance benefits for their employee's and let them fin for themselves? The insurance company is who is being forced, follw the new law or else. If the religious employer was actually forced to subsidize something against their tenents I would be on their side. This is the cruxt of this "starkingly dishonest debate", that a religious employer is forced into anything. The next falsehood is that they are forced to provide them for free, since the insured pays premiums and is responsible for co-pays, where's the free?