Chris Wallace: Fox News covers contraception for female employees
Source: Raw Story
Chris Wallace: Fox News covers contraception for female employees
By David Edwards
Sunday, March 4, 2012 15:20 EST
Last week, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said a Georgetown University student was a slut and a prostitute for wanting oral contraceptives to be covered by her health insurance but its not clear if he feels the same about the female employees who receive birth control pills from Fox News.
During a discussion about womens health issues on Sunday, Fox News host Chris Wallace revealed that the insurance provided by the conservative news network included oral contraceptives.
Before coming on today, I checked with the women here at Fox News and it turns out that Fox News health coverage does cover theres a co-pay but it does cover contraception, Wallace explained. When it comes to contraception, you know the idea that and were not talking about religious institutions. According to the Blunt amendment, any U.S. Steel, as I said, Fox News, any company could simply decide, we are not going to offer that. An insurance company could decide, one that has no ties to any religious organization.
Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel argued that requiring basic health care for women was a slippery slope towards forcing employers to pay for dental implants.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/04/chris-wallace-fox-news-covers-contraception-for-female-employees/
Vinca
(50,326 posts)underpants
(183,007 posts)Cirque du So-What
(26,026 posts)from the powerful stench of peroxides and other bleaching agents wafting from that photo.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)Or are these all robots with interchangeable heads?
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)blond when they walked in the door, they were before they went on camera.
That is one mighty white bunch.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)This...
Reminds me of this....
You are being brainwashed.
libinnyandia
(1,374 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)But, seriously, where did you get that montage?
otohara
(24,135 posts)I had no idea so many blondes work there.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)"slut" and "prostitute" name tags right on camera.
nolabear
(42,002 posts)Hope it gets brought up at every opportunity.
otohara
(24,135 posts)for the sake of the planet.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)Can Marriott deny coverage to employees who drink coffee?
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)it done onto you, oh wait, that doesn't apply to the non-believers!
Viva
(39 posts)in New York State
-- 2 states exclude emergency contraception from the required coverage.
-- 1 state excludes minor dependents from coverage.
http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_ICC.pdf
HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel argued that requiring basic health care for women was a slippery slope towards forcing employers to pay for dental implants.
Well, as it stands right now, a whole lot of dental work isn't covered by insurance companies (that should be looked at again considering how the condition of the teeth and gums are connected to plaque in the veins, etc. and its ties to stroke and heart disease) and no one has been denied the free practice of their religion so far... Just like elective plastic surgery isn't covered and isn't going to be covered by insurance already---and people still have the free exercise of their religion.
so if a woman has had a radical mastectomy to deal with breast cancer, is strassel going to holler, scream and cry like the stupid little girl she is and say that reconstructive surgery should not be covered too?
THIS IS NOTHING BUT AN ALL OUT WAR ON WOMEN AND REDUCTION OF THEM TO SECOND/THIRD CLASS CITIZENSHIP. The next thing they're going to attack is women having the vote--hardly 100 years ago, we finally got the vote and now these neanderthals want to drag us by the hair back to the 17th century.
high density
(13,397 posts)The fact that we're talking about contraceptives is completely ridiculous. If this is and gas prices are the GOP's top issues then I'd say the pendulum is about ready for a fast snap back from the right.
sakabatou
(42,202 posts)mrmx9
(223 posts)I can see why they would want to protect their female employees!
jillan
(39,451 posts)Islandlife
(212 posts)Make fox pay for their own if they want it. And even if they don't want it, make them buy it and provide for all.