NYTimes Ed Board Channels Emily's List | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: I suspect that Wheaton College, Hobby Lobby, Catholic hospital and college employees will soon have a limited rider, possibly from the insurer they currently have, providing the with contraception coverage, from basic pills to IUDs and Plan B. Whether taxpayers will have to kick in for these riders is TBD, but they will occur. What Wheaton objected to, and probably sitll objects to, is the form of the opt out. One could construe it as permission from having to fill out a form - knowing that this leads to coverage anyway. You know what? That is simply too bad. There is no possible way that any of them can not be involved in the process and that the process will not lead to their employees getting contraceptive coverage. They may take quick comfort from winning the case, but Wheaton is right - they are still a part of the process that such coverage is provided - and even if some way could be provided to soothe their consciences (about what is unclear, embryology is clear that they are wrong about the begining of individual development - which is still at gastrulation no matter how hard they scream, stomp their feet and have Fortnight's for Freedom) - the fact is that no Blastocysts were or will be saved for all this sound and fury. None, Zero, Nil.
As for the countless businesses that might opt out - most won't and indeed, most are one person firms that are really employees (some retired) of their sole client. They will be covered as retirees or under the Exchanges and will have contraceptive coverage accordingly.
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