CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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No woman should have her personal health care decisions dictated by the religious beliefs of her boss.
If companies can refuse to provide coverage for women, what other objections to the Affordable Care Act will we see based on 'religious grounds'? For that matter, will 'religious freedom' be used as an excuse to discriminate against other minorities and disenfranchised groups across the board? Where will it end?
We should not continue to play politics with women's health.
I cannot support a measure that chooses to protect some women and not others.
Business owners should not have to choose between violating their faith and violating the law.
I believe that in New York, we must have one set of rules for everyone - and that means women cannot be unfairly denied health coverage.
We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.
In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.
We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-woman exams.
The Obama administration has refused to back down on the insurance mandate that needlessly pits health care against the rights of the religious... This administration simply doesn't get it.
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