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74. And exactly the same argument could be

"Nothing in the employee handbook tells an employee he isn't allowed to take antibiotics, but our company has decided that antibiotics are tools of the devil so we will not include them in your health care benefits. You are free to pay for your own antibiotics. We cannot stop you. But you must never discuss this in the workplace."

It is in the national interest to have a certain baseline of covered practices, services, and medications, and not to have employers arbitrarily making decisions about those things. In the case of contraception, this LOWERS health care costs, so the only reason an employer has for excluding that is to force his own own religious dogma upon others.

This is now the third time that you have ignored the fact that contraceptives are welcomed by insurance carriers because they lower costs -- they do not increase any costs for the employer. The employer is not "paying for" anything with regard to contraceptives. I will not engage any further with you on this subject unless you acknowledge that fundamental point.