To Everyone Who Thinks That People Complaining About the Hobby Lobby Ruling are Wrong

If you don't understand why people are saying that the Hobby Lobby ruling is oppressive to women, perhaps you could ask why or, you know, Google it. Any opinion that you express on the subject will reach people whose lives have included circumstances that would have harmed them under this ruling, circumstances that would literally not exist in the absence of a uterus. As one of them, I should not be required to detail the precise, extremely personal information that makes my opinion more informed than the opinion of someone who can only imagine that there are circumstances under which this would be harmful or listen to people who state that there are circumstances under which this is harmful, but who fails to do both.

Stating that there are no problems with this ruling is extremely insulting and disrespectful:

• to every person who has ever had a medical condition treated with the denied treatment
• to every person who is unable to use some form of contraception for medical reasons
• to every rape survivor with a uterus
• to many domestic violence survivors
• to every person poor enough to bother to work at Hobby Lobby
• to any person who has a loved one in any of the previously listed groups
• to any person who has merely listened to detailed reasons stated by people in any of the previously listed groups and felt compassion for them
• to every person employed by the other 70 companies that had already filed similar cases with different coverage rules than Hobby Lobby
• to every person who just realized that this ruling applies to them even though their employer is not part of any of these suits
• and to every person who realizes that a "sincere belief" that a medical treatment does something does not change that science that says otherwise.

That's pretty large set of people. That you are unaware of any problems does not mean that people who say that there are problems are liars. Saying that they are liars just makes YOU an asshole. And when the people that you're calling liars includes sick people, rape victims, domestic violence victims, and people who have trouble paying for health care at all? That's a whole different level of asshole.

Don't be an asshole.