I'd like Republicans to confront the following: if employers were allowed to refuse some types of health insurance coverage on religious or moral grounds, would that extend to refusing to cover the children of employees who conceived via IVF? or even children born outside of marriage?
After all, the Pope says these things are wrong.
Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday urged infertile couples to shun artificial procreation, decrying such methods as a form of arrogance.
Speaking at the end of a three-day Vatican conference on diagnosing and treating infertility, Benedict also reiterated church teaching that marriage is the only permissible place to conceive children. Matrimony "constitutes the only 'place' worthy of the call to existence of a new human being," he said.
The pope pressed the church ban against artificial procreation, saying infertile couples should refrain from any method to try to conceive other than sex between husband and wife.
The argument against the HHS mandate boils down to: if the employer doesn't approve of birth control, then the sluts that work for him can pay for their own.
What stops that from being extended to: the employer shouldn't be forced to reward the immoral/sinful behavior of women who have children via IVF or outside marriage. Therefore, he can deny health insurance coverage for such children - leaving the parents to pay for it themselves.