Arizona Republicans Want To Force Women Workers To Prove why They’re Using Birth Control Pills

3/14/2012

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Republicans in Arizona want employers to be able to force women workers to prove they’re using birth control pills for medical reasons and not just contraception. Jesse Russell reports. 

A new Arizona bill has opponents concerned that female employees could be fired for using contraceptives. 

Majority Whip Debbie Lesko penned the bill which allows employers to ask employees to show they’re using birth control pills for specifically non-reproductive reasons. 

Opponents are concerned that an employer who opposes the use of birth control could fire women who refuse to share their medical information due to privacy concerns or are possibly using birth control to prevent pregnancies instead of for medical reasons. 

Lesko is quoted by the Arizona State Press as saying her legislation is about “the First Amendment” and she introduced it because theUnited States “is not the Soviet Union.” 

In addition to concerns over discrimination and the right to privacy opponents have also expressed that such legislation gives employers the right to impose personal religious beliefs on employees which goes against the concept of religious freedom. 

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Opinion - Al Jazeera English: They are GOP, hear them roar

Columbus, OH - "As I watch this Republican presidential primary season proceed in a manner roughly consistent with the course of the Costa Concordia, it has led me to a suspicion I feel honour-bound to share: I think the Republicans are throwing this thing. I'm not yet sure why. It could be that it better sets them up for a president they actually want in 2016, or that Mitt Romney made a $10,000 bet against himself, or that there's some sort of a sweater-vest endorsement deal in it for Rick Santorum.

As I said, I'm not sure why. What I am sure of however, is that they can't really be trying to win. The thing about elections is that to win them you need voters willing to, you know, vote for you. And at the current rate the Republican Party is going, they may have to start resuscitating every dead white male since the Whiskey Rebellion to have any shot at winning outside of Utah, or a Gingrich-family-settled lunar colony. . ."

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source: They are GOP, hear them roar - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

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