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Birth Control Ethics
The author of this report has been asked to consider the ethical dilemma of whether businesses and organizations should be required as a matter law to offer certain birth control options as part of the health insurance offerings given by the organization. For many publicly traded and diverse organizations, there is not really a question involved and compliance is pretty automatic. However, organizations that are privately held and/or religiously oriented tend to be an entirely different matter. Such has been the case with Hobby Lobby and Wheaton College. The former went to court to demand that they not be required to offer certain contraception options and they won. The latter decided to drop offering insurance altogether because of the ethical and legal implications involved in doing so. While birth control may be seen as a right for all women, there are many people that do not see things that way and the Supreme Court has been among those people at certain times.
Analysis
While it may be vexing to some why some organizations ban or limit the use of...
Beyond that, there is the feeling that people should have the right to manage their family planning as they see fit regardless of the justifications and that allowing employers to have an impact on that is not fair or equitable. Of the two example cases mentioned in this assignment, the Hobby Lobby case in particular is one that should get a lot of the focus. Wheaton could be a main focus but they took the proverbial easy way out and decided to no offer health insurance at all, at least for students (Pashman, 2015).
One thing that firms like Hobby Lobby have on their side is the fact there is indeed the free practice of religion guaranteed in the Constitution. At the same time, family planning and the idea of foisting one's viewpoints on the employees of a firm is often seen as unethical. There is a point to this but when a firm is privately held (which Hobby Lobby is), there is the question of whether the employee has the right to demand or expect such accommodations. Indeed, one might want to wonder why a person that seeks birth control covered across the board as part of health insurance trying to work at an organization that is Catholic or otherwise against the use of such materials. Indeed, many people classify sexual activity as a "need" but that is really not reasonable in…
References
ACLU. (2016). Anti-LGBT Religious Exemption Legislation Across the Country. American Civil Liberties Union. Retrieved 27 March 2016, from https://www.aclu.org/anti-lgbt-religious-exemption-legislation-across-country
Morton, G. (2016). Part-Time Staff Hours in Flux Due To Obamacare - The NonProfit TimesThe Non-Profit Times. The Non-Profit Times. Retrieved 27 March 2016, from http://www.thenonprofittimes.com/news-articles/part-time-staff-hours-in-flux-due-to-obamacare/
Pashman, M. (2015). Wheaton College ends coverage amid fight against birth control mandate. chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 27 March 2016, from http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-wheaton-college-ends-student-insurance-met-20150728-story.html
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