I have had, for the past few days, tried to put blinkers on so I can focus on my school work and not all the shit going on in the world.
Immigrant children coming to this country not the legal way... not the way our grandparents came over when they arrived at Ellis Island.
Hey DF, they are EXACTLY coming over the way your grandparents came over! This INCLUDES, not even beginning the legal process of immigration until their foot touched American soil at Ellis Island. Looking at another way, each state accepting these children is now an Ellis Island.
And I could go on . . .
I/P conflict -- yeah I have an opinion, as anyone friended with me on Facebook knows.
Blinkers (horse tack), on full.
Then I made the mistake of reading this . . .
Pro-Life Nurse-Midwife Who Won’t Prescribe the Pill Sues Family Planning Center for Not Hiring Her
Is “religious freedom” about being free to practice your faith, or just a generic cover story for any and all attempts to try to foist your beliefs on others? In this era of Hobby Lobby vs. Burwell, it’s understandable that many on the right have decided it’s the latter and are eager to start testing the limits of how much leverage the expansive new definition of “religious freedom” gives them to meddle with the private contraception choices of others. Next on the docket: Attempting to force family planning centers to hire nurse-midwives who refuse to let patients plan their families, all in the name of “religious freedom.”
pushed
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Sara Hellwege, a pro-life nurse in Tampa, Florida, is suing Tampa Family Health Centers after not being considered for a job just because she said she would not do that job, because doing that job, the job she doesn't have but was interviewing to get, would violate her religious beliefs.
. . . Hellwege was asked about her membership in the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and asked her if her beliefs would prevent her from working there. Hellwege said that while she would be able to “counsel” women about various birth control methods, she would only be able to prescribe barrier methods and sterilization. She then inquired if there were any job openings for antepartum and laborist only.
Mr. Lindsey then informed her that TFHC was a Title X organization, and that there were no jobs currently available that did not require her to prescribe birth control pills. Simple enough.
- Death and Taxes magazine
So she clearly said that she could not meet the job requirements as stated in the description. So . . . well . . . bye! I mean, I don't expected to get a job if I state that I can't meet the requirements of the job.
But not so Sara Hellwege, she's suing with the backing of the Christian right organization Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) which is handling her case. Because freedom.
“No one deserves to suffer discrimination just because they’re pro-life,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Matt Bowman. “Federal and state law make it clear that being pro-abortion cannot be a prerequisite for employment, nor can federally funded facilities force nurses to assist with practices that could lead to an abortion.”
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The lawsuit, Hellwege v. Tampa Family Health Centers, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, explains that “TFHC’s refusal to consider Ms. Hellwege’s application for employment on the basis of her religious beliefs and association with the pro-life group AAPLOG violates multiple federal laws.”
The lawsuit also explains that “Florida law shall not require ‘any person to participate in the termination of a pregnancy, nor shall...any person be liable for such refusal.’” Moreover, “Ms. Hellwege has the right to refuse to prescribe abortifacient contraceptives where such actions violate her religious beliefs or moral convictions.”
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Willingness to commit an abortion cannot be a litmus test for employment,” added ADF Senior Counsel Steven H. Aden. “All we are asking is for the health center to obey the law and not make a nurse’s employment contingent upon giving up her respect for life.”
- Alliance Defending Freedom press release
PRESCRIBING BIRTH CONTROL PILLS, THE COPPER 7,
IUDs WITH PROGESTIN, EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION, THE MORNING AFTER PILL
IS NOT COMMITTING AN ABORTION!!
Don't tell me your feelings. Give me your actual peer reviewed SCIENCE behind your claims.
So because Hobby Lobby was not required to prove whether their feelings that certain forms of birth control are abortifacients, and therefore a violation of the owner's of the corporation's feelings religious belief against abortion and there-fore a violation of the corporation's religion, these yaywhos feel emboldened to go after family planning clinics, whether or not they preform the actual medical procedure of abortion.
And then they go to a safe place where women won't be lied to and get good, reliable information and birth control what ever the type and what ever is needed . . . CAN'T HAVE THAT -- they need to be able to infect every aspect of a woman's life. Whether she's a believer or not.
This is a war and they are trying to go around our flank.
I guess our clinics need to declare a religion.
Addendum:
Imagine how these ultra Mercun Christians would react if this were the case:
A Muslim wants to work as a chef in restaurant that serves only pork and part of the job description is that the chef engage in quality control the dishes he/she prepares by tasting them atleast once a week. But doing that violates that persons religious beliefs, and this Muslim won't do that and clearly states so in the interview. Denied the job, he or she is suing to get the job.
Do you think these people who stand up for the "religious rights of this person or say "well you said you wouldn't do the job, because it violated your religion."
Now I'll try and get back to studying.
See also:
'Religious discrimination': Nurse sues after being denied job she said she wouldn't do anyway
It's a more in depth look than my rant.