I a male who graduated from ND in the 1970s, and I'm appalled by the university's pig-headedness about contraception. When Father Jenkins, the university president, sends me the inevitable appeal for funds, I will tell him that I'm contributing instead to Planned Parenthood in hopes of mitigating some of the damage he…

They should have to take off time from work with no pay, drive 100 miles, walk through a gauntlet of people screaming at you, get a trans-whatever wand shoved inside them, cross the gauntlet again, spend the night in a Super8 motel, and repeat the next day. THEN they can sign the form.

Yes, but you're supposed to suffer the punishment of Eve, so you shouldn't have any medication that helps you deal with that. Fuck you for being born a woman anyhow, right? Blergh.

That's OK, must insurance companies won't cover post-menopausal hormone replacement any more, as they consider it "not medically necessary", so there's a certain amount of symmetry there. I have to admit, I'd like to see a roomful of post-menopausal women experiencing hormonal symptoms go apeshit on some of those…

Yes, it has other uses. That is why I had the Mirena IUD. Not for birth control (hubby already had a vasectomy) but to control anemia since it reduces menstrual bleeding to just about nothing. But Noooooooooooo, I must be SLUT, so I have to PAY!

I am starting to hate America and the women-hating and sex-hating bozos that run it. I'm guessing the logic is: "Yeah but those women who have to sign waivers to get abortions are sluts. This is a fine upstanding University trying to fight for right. Sluts and only sluts should fill out forms. The right thinking…

Not only that, but they can make physicians and clinics fill out all kinds of unnecessary paperwork (like requiring admitting privileges for non-surgical centers) in order to perform abortions, but when a bunch of "princes of the church" are required to fill out 2 pages, it's asking FAR too much. How are these two…

CORPORATIONS ARE LITERALLY PEOPLE NOW :I

Did anyone read RBG's dissent? It was so good and full of her polite form of throwing shade at the justices who sided with Hobby Lobby.

They don't want to opt out of birth control because it's a "substantial burden" to exercising their rights— but they're perfectly fine with requiring a woman to get parental/spousal consent before an abortion, or wait 72 hours, or get 3 consultations with adoption agencies first, or get a transvaginal probe first. No…

Yeah, it IS all common knowledge— we settled all this shit about "The Pill" back in the '70s already! It's done! It's settled! It's a fait accompli! DONE!

There should never have been an exemption in the first place.

They probably think we pee from our butts

This is so asinine.

Oh, and also they don't provide daycare for babies under one, so women graduate students with young babies still have to teach in order to get funding but do not have employer supported daycare.

These people really want the best of both worlds, don't they? They don't want to provide birth control or opt out of birth control because it violates their religious beliefs. Doesn't running a university where football is treated like a religion violate that part of the bible where there's an admonition about not…

So signing a form declaring the religious exemption is somehow a violation of religious freedom? Did they feel that way about their IRS non-profit status forms?

God DAMN it, Irish.

Sadly that would have to mean that these religious men actually learned about how a woman's body works.

Ironic that -in Ireland - you would be hard pressed to find many in the medical profession nowadays who'd refuse a grown-ass woman birth control for some bullshit moral reason.