Susan McPherson
@SusanMcP1 · 2:19
Business and access to reproductive healthcare
Well, now, given the jigsaw puzzle in terms of states that permit abortion, states that make it very, very difficult, and states that outright criminalize, abortion, companies are trying to understand how they can, dare I say, help their workers or not, dare I say, just how can companies help their workforce, since 50% of their workforce is women? And we know that a lack of access to reproductive health care actually harms the bottom line
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:56
Susan, thank you so much for posting this. I know companies who really are grappling with this probably are running the risk of being, I don't know, fined or sued or cited by the state, if in fact they do business. Business access, reproductive healthcare, their employees, in spite of what the state is allowing. This is so disturbing
Renee 🪬
@RensLens · 3:11
You. Hey, Susan, thanks for bringing this up. This is a really important topic. So I'm sure you know, with the work that you've done, that Hobby Lobby in 2014 objected to having health insurance plans that covered birth control, and the Supreme Court at the time ruled in their favor, and Hobby Lobby's hobby Lobby's position was that covering women's birth control violated their religious beliefs. Five men on the Supreme Court, no women decided that case in their favor
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:48
Hey, Renee, I just want to thank you for doing that heavy lifting, showing up, protesting, and making sure that Hobby Lobby felt very unwelcome by your community. And look what happened. They closed their doors. That's a stunning story. Just I want to do a big pause right there and recognize your effort and your walking, your talk
Renee 🪬
@RensLens · 3:31
And we should be vocal about the Hobby Lobby case really wasn't about religion. It was about the fact that men are capable of making decisions about family and deciding whether or not to have a family, but that that decision should be only reserved for men, despite the fact that we know that the implications are far more serious for women in this country. And so that was infuriating in of itself
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 4:58
We need to address i, as a woman, don't need to think about becoming pregnant or preventing pregnancy as much as a man does because I solo solo on my own. Unless I'm going to a sperm bank, I have to go to the source of a man to access sperm. Okay? And so if I have to go to the source of a man to access sperm, then that is where we should start. We should start at the wound