"What war on women?" say a number of Republican governors, as if the
Hobby Lobby decision wasn't entirely about a boss's ability to determine what health care women workers can get. They're
just not concerned.
Republicans interviewed at the National Governors Association summer meeting here this weekend described the high court ruling exempting some religious owners of for-profit businesses from the Obamacare contraceptive coverage requirement as a welcome brake on President Barack Obama and his intrusive health law. And they didn’t see it causing problems.
"No," said New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie when asked if he was concerned that some New Jersey women could lose birth control coverage.
Asked why not, he added, "Because I'm not." […]
"It really hasn't been an issue for us just because it’s a federal decision," said Wisconsin's [Scott] Walker. "Honestly, we haven't heard much of anything at the state level out on the street from people we bumped into and talked to. I'm not on the court and I'm not in the federal government so I don't really get involved with it." […]
"[Women] still will have access," [Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin] said. "They can still go out and do that legally in the United States."
It's just women, after all, and just their right to have access to the most effective means of determining whether and when they get pregnant, have a family, control their own destiny. That's not for Republican governors to worry about. It's not their problem. It's almost as if no women of child-bearing age live in their states.
So take note women of New Jersey, Wisconsin, Oklahoma and every other state with a Republican governor. You are invisible to them. For now, anyway. You can change all that in November.