Activists who support the Affordable Care Actap employer contraceptive mandate demonstrate outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on June 30. The Supreme Court dealt a blow to President Barack Obama’s health-care law, ruling that closely held companies can claim a religious exemption from the requirement that they offer birth-control coverage in their worker health plans. (Pete Marovich, Bloomberg)
Re: “Keep bosses out of private health choice,” July 6 guest commentary.
Sen. Mark Udall’s reactionary op-ed over the Hobby Lobby decision proves again why he is unfit to be re-elected to the Senate. His comments are divisive, inflammatory, and an attempt to distract from his record. For example: “… five male justices turned back the clock on decades of gender equality … .” Really? How is this the case? I didn’t know Obamacare was around for decades. He goes on to state how crucial birth control is, even though the Supreme Courtap decision does not prevent birth control. “Empowering a woman to plan her family ensures she can pursue higher education, build a career, or buy a house,” he wrote. So I guess because of the Supreme Court decision, women won’t have careers, can’t go to school and will live in hovels.
Come on, Senator; defend your record to Coloradans if you can, and leave the hyperbole to the president, who’s really good at it.
Jim DeLoughry, Colorado Springs
This letter was published in the July 13 edition.I would like to thank Sen. Udall for his support for all women’s reproductive and health care rights. The five Supreme Court judges who voted in favor of Hobby Lobby’s stance on withholding certain forms of birth control are all conservative Catholic males who, as Udall correctly states have, “turned back the clock on decades of progress toward gender equality.”
That our country is debating birth control again is ridiculous, if not frightening. I am very tired of conservative, religious fanatics forcing their beliefs on the rest of us. I urge every Coloradan to vote for Sen. Udall and others who share his progressive beliefs to help protect us from this modern American Taliban.
Carol Carpenter, Denver
This letter was published in the July 13 edition.Sen. Mark Udall’s piece ends with this sentence: “No one should come between a woman and her doctor — not politicians, not bureaucrats, and definitely not bosses.” I agree. So please repeal Obamacare as quickly as possible.
Jacques Voorhees, Keystone
This letter was published in the July 13 edition.
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