Religious Liberty, Majority Rule and the Contraception Mandate | Capital Commentary

Religious Liberty, Majority Rule and the Contraception Mandate | Capital Commentary by Timothy Sherratt.  MGB: Making employer fiat the mechanism to prohibit private reproductive rights rather than the state would undermine the privacy decisions allowing them in the first place.  To replace the tyranny of the state with the tyranny of the employer is simply not acceptable.  Additionally, as life can be demonstrated as beginning at Gastrulation, there really are no moral issues to be addressed.  Until that point, the blastocyst develops under the guidance of only the maternal genetic code.  It is not an individual and may indeed twin.  That makes it a potential life, not an actual life.  Interestingly enough, if the Church would agree to such a dividing line, it would have a more compelling argument against abortion - although not enough to overcome the problems of turning miscarried embryos into legal individuals.