While you lost sleep over friends in L.A.
For those of you not following the victim-blaming on Fox News:
“We stoke hatred.” Is it on their business cards?
Rude Pundit remarks:
Not that it’s up to me (it’s up to LA County voters–home rule is cool & all that), but LA County in 2024 had a $49.2 billion budget (https://ceo.lacounty.gov/budget/), and I don’t see anything wrong with spending these amounts on these ⬇️ activities.
The Supreme Court said Friday it will review the constitutionality of a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires health plans to provide no-cost preventive care, including cancer screenings, immunizations and contraception, to millions of Americans.
The case puts the law, commonly known as Obamacare, in the crosshairs once again and follows several challenges in recent years by conservatives hoping to overturn it, as well as a landmark 2012 ruling by the justices upholding its legality.
In Becerra v. Braidwood Management Inc., a Christian-owned business and six individuals challenged the preventive-care provision because it requires health-care plans to cover pre-exposure medications intended to prevent the spread of HIV among certain at-risk populations. The plaintiffs argue that the medications “encourage and facilitate homosexual behavior,” which conflicts with their religious beliefs.
Rude Pundit on that subject:
Live and let live is not part of their faith model.
Meanwhile, out on the Interwebs, there is a conspiracy theory going around about House Resolution 7 introduced by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Az.) and Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.). Summarized in brief:
House Resolution 7, Recognizing the importance of access to comprehensive, high-quality, life-affirming medical care for women of all ages, was referred to the Committee on Energy on Commerce. HR 7 states that women should feel empowered and equipped with the knowledge to listen to their body and advocate for their health.
The resolution emphasizes women having access to health care for the sake of their physical, mental, and spiritual wellness. It also states that women’s health care should address the needs of men, families, and communities. While focusing on women’s health care, the resolution, does not state, why or how men or families are related to the care of women’s health.
Additionally the resolution adds that the use of Pro Women’s Healthcare Centers, a group of centers that provide health care to women is a goal of the representatives sponsoring the bill in the 119th Congress.
No, what the resolution states is that the Pro Women’s Healthcare Centers model is one “worth implementing nationwide,” and that, again, women’s health care “should also address the needs of men, families, and communities,” including her “spiritual wellness.”
One fact check from MSN states that, contra online rumors, the resolution will not require women “to get permission from their husband, father or priest to obtain birth control, have their tubes tied, access IVF, get treated for a miscarriage or end a pregnancy for any reason.”
First, it’s a resolution, not a law. Second, it doesn’t state any of that expressly.
OTOH, you can read between the lines where Biggs and Higgins want to take women in this country and why these men introduced this resolution. You don’t need a weatherman….