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Fluke had it all wrong

By William "ed'' Nicholson 2 min read

Pompous liberal gadfly Sandra Fluke’s recent commentary in the Herald-Standard entitled, “Supreme Court ruling hurts women” is no more than callous demagoguery and distortion.

She laments that that the recent “Hobby Lobby” decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court is but still another grievous injustice against women. Her claim that this decision it is a major step toward restricting all abortions and any access to birth control is nothing but blatant fear-mongering.

Fluke’s fame or infamy, began with her 2012 testimony before Congress asserting an absolute and universal constitutional right to free birth control in any national insurance plan. Some of us are still trying to find the actual words in the document which suggest the taxpayers are to bear the cost of her or anyone’s sexual wantoness.

It matters not to Ms. Fluke that the consistent and deeply held beliefs of the family founders of “Hobby Lobby” preclude them from participating in abortion. Nor does she mention that the company provides 16 of 20 recognized types of birth control in their employee insurance plan. The four which they refused to provide all involved the destruction of the fertilized egg, in other words, an abortion.

The employees of Hobby Lobby are among the highest paid, and best treated employees in America. What is to keep any employee which disagrees in principle with the company policy or philosophy from seeking employment elsewhere? Or, why should such “aggrieved” female employees not seek this restricted “birth control” from another free provider of such “treatment.”

It should be noted that there are up to six such sources of free-care readily available? How, then, is this a denial of these female worker’s right to birth control?

This whole article is another example of a radical liberal artifice designed to create resentment toward those who hold bibical or traditional values on the sacredness of life.

William “Ed” Nicholson is a resident of Dunbar.

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