What this really is, people, is the argument that employers should be able to withhold insurance coverage for medical treatments that based on "religious or moral objection."
So, would it be okay for employers to withhold insurance coverage for blood transfusions because the employer objects?
How about organ transplants? There are folks who have moral or religious objections to them.
Maybe it would be okay to withhold insurance coverage for the children of employees that were born out of wedlock? That's a moral no-no to a lot of folks.
Let's withhold insurance coverage for cancer treatments, because after all it's God's decision when and how we die, not man's.
Perhaps it's okay for employers to decide to withhold insurance coverage for any kind of medical treatment for female reproductive problems. If God wants her to have babies, she'll have them. If not, fugettabout it.
While we're at it, let's give employers the ability to withhold insurance coverage for pain medication for their employees, because they morally object to wussies.
If we as a nation give employers the opportunity to withhold insurance coverage for any legitimate medical service based on their own "moral and religious objections", then what I've listed above is no longer nonsensical. It is absolutely within the mandate for any employer to do to its employees... simply provide the cheapest possible insurance by withholding nearly every medical service the employer might possibly need. It lays the groundwork for unbelievable abuse, along with the blatant discrimination to women that has already been described. It is, in a word, unconscionable.
