{"id":6935,"date":"2012-02-09T06:21:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T11:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2012-02-09T06:21:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T11:21:10","slug":"thursday-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2012\/02\/09\/thursday-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it appears that Republicans are going to force a fight over the requirement that employers cover contraception as part of their insurance plans. This is rather curious, as most people (other than the truly crazy, &#8220;every sperm is sacred&#8221; crowd) are on board with this. The Republicans are, predictably, framing this provision as &#8220;an attack on religious freedom,&#8221; which is pretty stupid, considering nobody will be <strong><em>forced<\/em><\/strong> to use contraception, and, instead, employees who don&#8217;t want to breed irresponsibly will have <strong><em>their<\/em><\/strong> religious freedoms attacked &#8211; all for the crime of working at, say, a Catholic hospital or something.  Assuming the Obama Administration isn&#8217;t stupid enough to pre-cave on this (a huge assumption, given its previous track record), I think this will turn out to be a real bummer for the GOP &#8211; and not a fight that will do them any good in the long run.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it appears that Republicans are going to force a fight over the requirement that employers cover contraception as part of their insurance plans. This is rather curious, as most people (other than the truly crazy, &#8220;every sperm is sacred&#8221; crowd) are on board with this. The Republicans are, predictably, framing this provision as &#8220;an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6936,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions\/6936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}