Are women the property of their employers?

The Missouri legislature just overrode a rare courageous veto from Governor Nixon on the issue of insurance plans.  In Missouri, employers may now unconditionally keep their female employees from purchasing family planning services through their insurance provider.  Possible effects include-

More abortions- less family planning means more unwanted pregnancies.


Dangerous precedent- now that religious grounds are all that is needed for an employer to assert patriarchal authority over female employees whose sexual behavior he wishes to control, what guarantee of safety is left to Missouri's women?

I rather think, however, that their ultimate goal is simple- to prevent even a handful of women from being economically independent is a victory in their eyes.  They want women to have to have babies at the command of their Lord, and leave "man's work" for "man".  This bill will by no means keep all women from working, but it will make it more difficult for women to control their own bodies, and keeping the burden of paying for basic health care -which saves all society money- firmly anchored upon working women, rather than their Capitalist Patriarchs.  Glorious day for the army of the Lord, I suppose- if even one woman has an unintended pregnancy and is pressured into keeping the baby, and leaves her job, a man can take it and restore the proudest of American traditions- chauvinism.

I try not to blog angry, but...