proposed law in AZ to allow employers to request women provide proof they're using BC for non sexual reasons

This is mind boggling
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Law Will Allow Employers to Fire Women for Using Whore Pills

A proposed new law in Arizona would give employers the power to request that women being prescribed birth control pills provide proof that they're using it for non-sexual reasons. And because Arizona's an at-will employment state, that means that bosses critical of their female employees' sex lives could fire them as a result. If we could harness the power of the crappy ideas coming out of the state of Arizona, we could probably power a rocket ship to the moon, where there are no Mexicans or fertile wombs and everyone can be free to be as mean a cranky asshole as they want at all times! Arizona Heaven!

Yesterday, a Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed Republican Debbie Lesko's HB2625 by a vote of 6-2, which would allow an employer to request proof that a woman using insurance to buy birth control was being prescribed the birth control for reasons other than not wanting to get pregnant. It's all about freedom, she said, echoing everyone who thinks there's nothing ironic about claiming that a country that's "free" allows people's bosses to dictate what medical care is available to them through insurance. First amendment. The constitution. Rights of religious people to practice the treasured tenets of their faiths, the tenets that dictate that religious people get to tell everyone who is not of faith how they're supposed to live, and the freedom to have that faith enforced by law. Freedom®.

Further, Lesko states, with a straight face, that this bill is necessary because "we live in America; we don't live in the Soviet Union."

Ah, yes, the Soviet Union. The sort of place where a woman might think about getting birth control through an insurance plan to which she contributes premiums without having to show her boss her prescription in order to prove that she wasn't using it to not get pregnant. The Soviet Union. A hellscape where women don't run the risk of losing their jobs over their sexual practices. What a horrible, awful place where herds of sluts run wild like feral ponies, humping everything in sight. The nightmare of unwilling motherhood evaded is a constant spectre in The Motherland.

Anyway, this bill probably won't get anywhere; it violates all sorts of privacy laws and I can't imagine that female citizens of Arizona would be in favor of having their rights further legislated away by a chamber of mostly dudes trying to win votes from Team Jerk Version of Jesus. But that doesn't make it any less depressing. In fact, it's almost depressing enough to make a lady consider building a time machine so that she can take it back to 1985 and find some job security in the Soviet Union.
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Re: proposed law in AZ to allow employers to request women provide proof they're using BC for non sexual reasons

what the heck is going on lately with all these attacks on women's rights????

whore pills???

I'm scared for our future

AND this is coming from a WOMAN

Message edited 3/14/2012 9:59:57 AM.

Re: proposed law in AZ to allow employers to request women provide proof they're using BC for non sexual reasons

You have got to be kidding me. I just posted this as my facebook status but now it seems appropriate here as well, and I apologize for any offended by this, these are my personal political beliefs.

In the wise words of Dan Savage: "In 2010, Americans voted Republican hoping—despite 30 years of evidence to the contrary—that the GOP might know something about creating jobs. Surprise! Turns out that all the GOP knows how to do is wage war on American women. The GOP's attack on abortion morphed into an attack on Planned Parenthood which morphed into an attack on access to contraception which finally morphed into an attack on the 98 percent of American women who use or have used contraception. (Sluts and prostitutes, one and all, according to Rush Limbaugh.) The GOP's war on choice, contraception, cancer screenings, and women won't end until the f**** waging it are driven out of office.

Pissed off? Great! Do something about it.

Go find a pro-choice Democrat who's running for office against an anti-choice/anti-woman mother***r and send that Dem a check or, if you live in his or her district, volunteer for that Democrat. Fight back!"

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religious zealous running the country? isn't that what our founding fathers were against?

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Yeah ok, good luck with that one! Total invasion of privacy!

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Posted by VanderZwang

Posted by MandJZ

You have got to be kidding me. I just posted this as my facebook status but now it seems appropriate here as well, and I apologize for any offended by this, these are my personal political beliefs.

In the wise words of Dan Savage: "In 2010, Americans voted Republican hoping—despite 30 years of evidence to the contrary—that the GOP might know something about creating jobs. Surprise! Turns out that all the GOP knows how to do is wage war on American women. The GOP's attack on abortion morphed into an attack on Planned Parenthood which morphed into an attack on access to contraception which finally morphed into an attack on the 98 percent of American women who use or have used contraception. (Sluts and prostitutes, one and all, according to Rush Limbaugh.) The GOP's war on choice, contraception, cancer screenings, and women won't end until the f**** waging it are driven out of office.

Pissed off? Great! Do something about it.

Go find a pro-choice Democrat who's running for office against an anti-choice/anti-woman mother***r and send that Dem a check or, if you live in his or her district, volunteer for that Democrat. Fight back!"

Posting on my status!

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Jezebel.com?

Re: proposed law in AZ to allow employers to request women provide proof they're using BC for non sexual reasons

is that real? there is no way that would ever survive. unconstitutional for sure.

not to mention, at will doesn't give you permission to fire for discriminatory reasons.

Re: proposed law in AZ to allow employers to request women provide proof they're using BC for non sexual reasons

Absurd, I have no words.

Our basic civil liberties are under attack in this country and its very scary

Re: proposed law in AZ to allow employers to request women provide proof they're using BC for non sexual reasons

Here's the text of the bill:
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/2r/summary/h.hb2625_03-01-12_houseengrossed.doc.htm

I hope they have a similar bill stating that Viagra is used for a non-sexual purpose too.

To reiterate what I wrote in a previous thread: In December 2000, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that companies that provided prescription drugs to their employees but didn't provide birth control violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prevents discrimination on the basis of sex.

I truly hope Arizona women stand up for their rights & speak to their legislators.

In case anyone here lives in Arizona:
State Representatives

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Re: proposed law in AZ to allow employers to request women provide proof they're using BC for non sexual reasons

Scary, scary stuff.

You know, I really believed that our mothers, grandmothers, great grandmothers etc all fought these battles so we wouldn't have to.

What's next? When do they strip us of the right to vote.

I'm afraid for the future, afraid for myh daughters.

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this is so wrong

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Re: proposed law in AZ to allow employers to request women provide proof they're using BC for non sexual reasons

What happened to equal rights? Civil liberty? Oy vey

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So, will men then have to prove that they are using Viagra/Cialis for NON-SEXUAL reasons ?
It is no ones business why I would take certain meds.

I'm getting so sick and tired of the double standard. This is 2012, not 1812.
It seems like women's rights are regressing.

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I cannot for the life of me think of how a company or HIPAA privacy officer, for that matter, delve into the reasons for birth control.

This is an HR nightmare.

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This is horrible. For any congress woman voting for this they should have their congressional healthcare bcp coverage revoked. I am sorry, it is disgusting to me that they think their religion has a right to control my body. I am not on BC pills but if I wanted to be on them I would want that right for me and for any other woman who decides she needs them.

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This is absolutely ridiculous.

I'm not even on BCP right now, by choice, but I want it to be there when I need it.

And I don't want to have to tell my boss, yeah, I'm planning on porking all night long, so can I get some pills?

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This makes me so sad and even more angry