People don't like to believe me when I tell them that the ultimate goal of the Christofascists is to overturn Supreme Court rulings that found a right to privacy, especially those like Griswold v. Connecticut that legalized contraception. In the minds of these fanatics who would police everyone's bedrooms the contraception cases were the beginning of the end of the puritanical world they so loved and opened the door to decisions like Roe v. Wade, Lawrence v. Texas and United States v. Windsor. Here in Virginia, the war on contraception continues as bills are pre-filed that would disallow health insurance plans that include contraception coverage. Leading the charge is the utterly insane and anti-woman would be Grand Inquisitor Del. Bob Marshall who unfortunately won reelection. Blue Virginia has these highlights:
Del. "Sideshow Bob" Marshall has been reelected yet again, and he's back yet again with his monomaniacal war on contraception.
HB 18 (requires HMOs, insurers, etc. who offer health insurance policies "be required to offer a policy, contract, or plan identical in all respects except that no such coverage [for contraception] is included");
HB 19 ("no individual or group accident and sickness insurance policy, individual or group accident or sickness subscription contract, or health care plan for health care services shall provide coverage for contraception methods, sterilization procedures, abortifacient drugs or devices unless the subscriber or enrollee in the policy, contract, or plan requests such coverage");
HB 20 ("no health insurance plan, regardless of whether such plan consists of self-insurance, purchased insurance, a combination of purchased and self-insurance, or the use of a health maintenance organization, offered by the Commonwealth or any locality to its employees or by any agency, department, division, or institution of the Commonwealth or any locality authorized by law to offer such a plan to its employees is required to include coverage for contraception methods, sterilization procedures, or abortifacient drugs or devices.").
Totally on board with this lunacy is, of course, would be Attorney General Mark Obenshain who has backed "personhood" legislation.
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