Federal Judge Rules That Employers Can Refuse to Cover HIV Prevention Drugs on Religious Grounds

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The Affordable Care Act requires insurance plans to cover PrEP, but a judge in Texas decided that violates employers' religious freedom.

gutting the prevention coverage requirements of the Affordable Care Act could free “private insurers from the obligation to provide so much basic coverage—again, we’re talking vaccines, pregnancy care, cancer screening and treatment ... The list is nearly endless.”O’Connor’s decision comes during a massive wave of right-wing homophobic and anti-trans panic.

; are trying to criminalize doctors and parents who provide gender-affirming care to trans teens and kids; want to pull LGBTQ-related books off library shelves and out of classrooms; and have not-so-subtly hinted since the Supreme Court overturned

 

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Hi you are a bad person if you support this, full stop. Eat trash scumbags.

If you belong to a religion that says you're not allowed to help employees with HIV, then it's time you change your religion - AND your employer. Health care is a human right.

Vile.

Why the pills on a hairy back? Is there a reason for that? I’m a bit confused🤔

Healthcare should not be tied to employment. Period.

Take a second to think about this. If your employer gets to pick and choose what you get to do with your health insurance, are they going to be able to decide what you can do with your salary next? In both cases, this is your compensation for working for them.

Remember that time Jesus was like 'I won't heal the sick?'

Jesus don’t even know y’all. Y’all hung that man on a damn cross and claimed he died for y’all sins? Talking bout he’s coming back, while y’all wear a cross on your necks. Damnation to all of you. Hell.

The Bible says you have to die of aids

Usually people dispense the pills in their hand, hopefully this isn’t someone’s palm with the 5 o’clock shadow.

Crazy shit!

Uh, SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE?! That's unconstitutional, therefore they're not legally allowed to do that

More harm has been done in the name of Christianity what woukd Jesus do?

Who decided to photograph the pills like that?

This song continues to be relevant with every passing day

I heard gay people get headaches. Can employers refuse to cover aspirin?

WTF. Are they looking for an epidemic? What a MONSTER!

More important: WHAT PART OF THE BODY IS THAT?!?

My friend got HIV from her husband and they were both super Christians who wouldn't miss 1 sunday at church. Her husband died but she lived 20 more years thanks to the HIV medications that her work insurance helped pay. Covid is what killed her. That decision is cruel.

Christianists.

This is barbaric.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS PICTURE WHY IS IT HAIRY

Thou shalt not kill - unless the odds are good it’s a gay person. -American Christian Conservatives

LMAO just say you want the gays to die.

That's not what Jesus would do.

I don't get it. How does HIV come under religious grounds? Someone please explain to me.

i feel like no one is talking about this picture and i have been staring at it for like 5 full minutes trying to figure out what body part this is. initially i thought it was a lower back but like why the fuck are the pills there

What are those pills lying on? It looks like someone’s hairy arse cheek or something, which is a bit weird.

Christian theocracy creeping up on us.

Braidwood employees should continue to take their paychecks but refuse to do any work on the 'religious grounds' that their work would benefit people they consider immoral.

why are the pills sitting on a hairy body table?

Seems unwise to let your employees get HIV but what do I know

Could this be contraception by a different name? Oh my! Yes! It is.

Why are they allowed to cherry pick what parts of the Bible they think apply to them. Convenient it always seems to be things that only affects people they don’t like and not themselves

It’s strange, I have yet to work for an employer that pays for my employer health plan. I’m the one paying the bill. Not to mention, they’re not providing the insurance coverages, the provider is. So, how tf does any of this fall onto “religious” freedom?

Please ask the same judge about Viagra!!

Show me where in your fantasy book that treating HIV is forbidden.

God I hate my religion. -_-

Human rights are no longer human rights. Just say that.

WTH is that photo? Are the pills sitting on someone’s closely shaved head? Arm with stubble on it?

Just another reason healthcare shouldn't be tied to employment

Thank goodness in my country we have universal healthcare, because if we’d leave health issues to the hands of the Christians we’d all be dead long ago (unless, of course, we were all fetuses)

Christianity is going to kill the US.

companies who can pick and choose their employees health coverage based on some god fearing gay hating cult mentality is fucked up. people ruling that behavior as okay is pushing their agenda which is also super fucked up

No normal secular country should allow things like this. This is religion overriding laws of the state.

Not very christlike

So they only want to separate Church and State when it's in regards to Taxes, but Church has a big play on laws.

crazy how the only part of their religion they ever enforce is about whos fucking who and whos fucking when

Oh the irony

Ah yes, it’s not like straight Christians don’t get STDs or anything, it’s only “faithless” gay people who get STDs, what the fuck is this buffoonery

Why am I not surprised that this is the US. What backward nation they have become

You know how to get around this? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEATHCARE. Let's the rubes decide it's not for them I stead of deciding for the rest of us.

Are the pills in this picture sitting on some guys back?

damn I didn’t know that saving lives was a sin… crazy

It’s what Jesus would have wanted

WHAT?! LOL how does that make sense?

Standby for the “nOt ReAl ChRiStIaNs”. This is real Christianity. These are your people. This is an internal problem. Your religion preached bigotry and the fascists are using it accordingly. Stop pretending to be shocked. Be critical of your religion for ONCE.

This shit is why so many people are sick to fucking death of Christians. Even if you aren’t explicitly for this, being quietly and politely opposed is not enough. For once look at your religion with a critical eye. There is a sickness in the theology here.

If you follow a satanic religion you could. Jesus would help all the sick. Because all members of the humankind are children of his father.

Lol wait till they find out this affects them as well…. Like religious heteros get HIV too…😂

Alrighty, so who wants to jot their religion down as being opposed to preventing human suffering and disease? Im sure thatll bring in the converts.

Once again, too many Christians think religious 'freedom' means their freedom to impose their (shitty) beliefs on others.

Disgusting and morally offensive

As Jesus once said, “fuck the sick and poor, they can die.”

Ef you see Kay religion. I’m over it. You don’t NOT help people in the name of religion. What the …

Coming in 2023: 'sincerely held religious belief' against paying employees

So like has religion ever been used for anything that isnt just genuinely shitty? I swear yall only do just to have a superiority complex and be externally shitty to literally everyone.

So much for pro-life. These mofos want a fascist theocracy. VOTE blue in every election!!!

The heck kind of animal is that?

Okay but why is the stock photo you picked somebody's pectoral divot (or possibly shoulder divot)?

That’s it. I’m gonna start burning bibles now.

WTheActualF [former Prepper,~$2000/mo, would NEVER been able to afford w/o insurance] We know this court are all for discrimination against gays. But Prep is NOT exclusively gay. Straights use it as well! or since those people are apparently sluts better if they die as well.

. This is about condemning any and all human sexuality that is not heterosexual, in-wedlock, missionary position, coital sex for procreation only This is evangelical QuiverFull ForcedBirth 'Christianity' in full bloom It has nothing to do with 'health insurance'

What The fuck

Australian Insurance refuses cover on Drug Dance Deaths ✅✅✅

I agree this is wrong but yo y’all hate woman so much that you can’t define them and shit don’t get me started on your hate of straight males. Y’all do more hating than any group in existence.

There is zero ‘bonafide religious tradition’ that justifies this.

Do Americans know that in every other developed country your employer has no involvement in your health care, except for paid sick and maternity leave. Health care is not linked to your job.

I had to argue with my pretty solid insurance to have a surgery that would allow me to --breathe through my nose for the first time ever-- Doc said I had 10% airflow but insurance called it 'cosmetic surgery' and didn't want to cover it. Stop giving insurances more excuses!!!!!!

Why is the background hairy

Well I refuse to do any work at home because of my religion then. 💁‍♂️

Weird I didn't think corporations could hold religious beliefs, being that they're corporations not people.

Businesses do not go to church. Their only 'religion' is capitalism. Businesses should stay the f out of your off time life. Another fix would be medicare for all. Let HR have one less plate to spin.

Its time to start taking away freedom of religion.

So much for pro-life, huh?

Reed Charles O'Connor (born June 1, 1965) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. He was nominated by President George W. Bush in 2007.

Um, wot? No. No no no no no. RepentanceBot help me out here.

Is that a hairy table

Wow now they’re ruling to protect the religious freedoms of Satanists? That’s progress I guess?!

This news is as horrible as the image you used to feature it. What part of a human body is that? Did y’all just make a hairy skin texture and put pills on it? Why did you make a generic hairy flesh background, thats so awful 😱

Why are judges ruling on medical necessity?

57 years old, already on the bench almost 15 years, with who knows how many more to come

That’s nothing to do with religion, that’s HATRED and bigotry.

what if we start a religion around this holy symbol?

The worst of religion and the worst of capitalism working side by side again. What a surprise.

Besides 'Braidwood Management', how many other companies will now stop paying for Prep?

Holy hairy palms

This is not religious freedom. Freedom is for the employer not to take these drugs. This is coercion.

What even is this picture?

Oh no, the Christian based business I work at won’t pay for my medicine that allows me to have sex with every guy I swipe right on.

why are Christian making governmental decisions when there's more than one part of the Bible saying that they shouldn't?

Why are the pills sitting on an unknown part of the body like that?

But hiding priest who molest children so they can do it again is all good. Thank you Jesus.

WHat the hell is this picture?

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OT: what body part is that

Ohh America, why you so desperate to fall down to the category of an under developed nation

Uhh wtf?

Scary how 'God-fearing' the States are, yet they lie and blame religious grounds for every facist decision they make

When Christians condemn pedophilia, then....

Okay, the story is important, but what the heck is that background? Why do the pills have to be placed on a stubbly expanse of unidentifiable flesh?

This is disgusting………

HIV can be transmitted in other ways besides sex. And it's not only gay sex. Preposterous.

gross picture, pal!

This ruling is extreme and horrible, and also what the heck is this thumbnail photo? Why are the pills loose on an apparently trimmed but unidentifiable body part? Wtf

What's the controversy here? Would an employer be expected to pay for someone's condoms?

death cult

From the article “A federal judge ruling that employers have no obligation to cover drugs that save lives, simply because the employer hates gay people, is just the latest escalation in this war.” War is the correct word in that statement.

There's no hate quite like Christian love

They weren't going to stop at birth control.

What religious belief would be cause to deny lifesaving medication?

Republicans are just begging us to nationalize health care.

LEBassett What? That makes no sense. At all. Like always cruelty is the point with this crowd.

LEBassett Remember that part in the Bible where Jesus refused to heal the sick because he said it would violate his religious rights?

LEBassett Cause the only way to get HIV is through sex…

Which religion is it that wants people to die?

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