Yeah, it makes sense. But if they pay me money, and I use that money to buy birth control, it's exactly the same thing.

I'm pretty sure that's their reasoning. They would rather be stubborn asses about it, waste taxpayer dollars, and create so many problems just because this is the only way they can prevent people from getting a service the University doesn't like.

You hit the nail on the head. These people are the worst of the "My religion is right and more important than your personal freedoms" and "Abortion is murder" crowds.

Jesus Christ, if we require women to sign a waiver before getting an abortion, things jackasses can fill out a two page form to be exempt from birth control.

Exactly. Their argument is that they cannot be involved in any way in a woman getting birth control since it goes against their religion. It doesn't matter if they're not the one providing it or paying for it, doing ANYTHING at any part in the process infringes on their "religious freedom" to not give women birth…

they also should stop covering other meds for diabetes, blood pressure, ED meds...

Yep, that's exactly the problem. If they sign the paper, then they're giving someone else permission to provide birth control, to which they morally object. There was a group of nuns in Colorado who did the same thing last year. It's not about the actual money dedicated to BC, but rather the fact that the Catholic…

From as far as I can tell, it's because the school does not merely object to having to pay for BC-coverage directly. They object to the idea that they will have to be in a relationship with a third party that is providing a service that they believe is immoral to their employees.

WAS THIS THE BRIDGE THAT WAS ON JOHN OLIVER??!?

I used to drive under this bad boy once a day for about seven years.

God fucking dammit. SINGLE PAYER SYSTEM. Down with employer-provided healthcare! Boo! Hiss! This makes me so goddamned mad, I cannot effectively communicate, and I'm sorry.

woo, go irish, or whatever

and then Notre Dame would almost surely appeal to the Supreme Court again. This thing could ping-pong back and forth forever, and what fun that would be

Is their issue that if they fill out the form an mail it to the insurance companies, then the insurance companies will be covering the birth control in question? and if they don't fill out the form, it keeps it in a limbo where neither the school nor the insurance is obligated to provide birth control?

When I was 22 I was riding the metro and this under frat bro was spitting game at a college girl in the seats in front of me. Every other sentence was KA this and KA that. Suddenly he mentioned that they had a really small pledge class this year and the girl, without missing a beat goes, "oh no. Is there suddenly a…

Ah, SAE. Continuing their long and storied history of lamebrained, idiotic racism. I'm (unpleasantly) reminded of the stunt pulled off by the University of Cinncinnati chapter in the early '80s - a party "celebrating" MLK's birthday in which "...fraternity members sent fliers for the party to other fraternity and…

I'm not normally one for retributive justice, but I would love to see an additional punishment from the school which involves each shithead SAE member being locked in a room for 5 minutes with a Black member of the Sooners football team and being given the opportunity to sing this little ditty. Seriously, FUCK THESE…

These idiots probably joined because their dads did, so they're probably all huffy about how abused their little special racist snowflakes are.