The Orange County Labor Federation sent out an email newsletter today, called OC Voice, inciting their members to rally for abortion rights in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision. Here is what they had to say:
Last month’s Supreme Court ruling, allowing certain corporations to make health care decisions for their female workers has gone too far. Hobby Lobby can now deny birth control to workers based on their religious beliefs.
Stop the Madness! Join workers and their families, labor and community allies on Tuesday, July 29th from 12:00-2 PM for a rally at the Hobby Lobby in Laguna Niguel, located at 27200 Alicia Pkwy.
For more information and to RSVP, please contact Alan at stopthehobbylobbymadness@gmail.com.
Why would the unions rally for abortion? Surely some of their members disagree with this stance?
You are MISREPRESENTING this rally! It is NOT an abortion rally! It is a rally for religious freedom for everybody. Period end of story. Not just the religious freedom of the few people who own Hobby Lobby.
Hey we’re all for religious freedom but the Hobby Lobby case was primarily about abortion. Your union leaders need to be smarter about picking your battles.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/28399997-452/hobby-lobby-ruling-about-abortion-not-contraceptives.html#.U9QUOtDn_qA
It was not about abortion! If it were about abortion, they would be ALL FOR birth control coverage so they wouldn’t have to worry about unwanted pregnancies that were aborted! You people twist words! If you right wing idiots would look at the big picture, you would see that providing FREE birth control to both men and women would prevent unwanted pregnancies, therefore reducing the abortion rate, the rate of abused or neglected children, the amount of money spent on welfare, WIC, and other social programs. But we all know that’s not what this battle is really about. It’s about controlling women because we scare you! Yes, that’s right! We are a powerful group of strong women and we scare the hell out of you. So, you try to take steps to “put us in our place.” This is just one of many! Get over it! We mad as hell and we won’t go away!!!
Those are Planned Parenthood talking points. Here is a more objective look at the ruling which experts agree was very limited in scope: http://m.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/06/hobby-lobby-isnt-waging-a-war-on-women/373717/
Okay, so the greedy Green family believes preventing a fertilized egg cell from implanting in the uterus is an abortion. But would someone please explain how are IUDs abortificants? Please end this war on women Hobby Lobby, without birth control, we are forced into being economically dependent on men. Just look at other countries where women don’t have access to birth control…women cannot work, they cannot own property, they are forced to wear burkas and live in a male dominated culture. I sure don’t want my America to end up like that, but with the trajectory we’re on here, it’s more than realistic.
So I assume you were terribly upset when the male Obama beat the female Clinton?
You’re being ridiculous. This issue has nothing to do with the working families of Orange County and this rally is evidence that the liberal leaders of the OC Labor Federation are out of touch with their constituents.