The Arizona State Judiciary Committee has endorsed a Republican backed "show me your prescription" bill which now moves on to the state Senate. This bill would require a woman to show her contraception prescription to her employer...any employer. If the employer determines that the female employee is using contraception in order to prevent a pregnancy, the employer would have the right to fire that female employee.
what eye thynk: Republicans are so far off the rail on this issue it is truly becoming frightening. Birth control is a religious issue? My Bible doesn't mention birth control. Is there a special Republicans Only Bible that the rest of us are not allowed to see?
A prescription is part of a woman's medical records. If a law officer is denied access to patient records because of doctor/patient confidentiality; how can they justify giving Joe Blob, who hires a woman to run a cash register three nights a week at the local Stop 'n' Rob, access to part of those same medical records? Where is the logic in this?
Let's follow this to the absurd: Joe Blob's church prohibits the use of birth control and he is permitted to fire any female employee who does not follow the tenets of HIS church. What if this female employee belongs to some obscure religious sect that requires all women over a certain age to use birth control? If he fires her for following her church's tenets, wouldn't that be a violation of HER religious freedom? Whose religious freedom trumps whose?
And imagine if the employer is Mary Blob who belongs to a church that requires all males to be circumcised. Employee evaluation day would be interesting.
this is insanity
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