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"I know that the headline you just read on this blog post seems completely unbelievable, but if Arizona lawmakers enact this new piece of legislation, &amp;quot;fired for using birth control&amp;quot; is going to be more of a reality show than a horror movie.Arizona&amp;#x27;s Senate Judiciary Committee voted this week 6-2 to endorse Arizona House Bill 2625, which would allow all employers who carry religious beliefs (not just churches) to require doctor&amp;#x27;s proof if employees use contraceptives for non-reproductive purposes, like hormone control or acne-prevention. How would that lead to a legal firing, you ask? Arizona is an at-will employment state, which means employers don&amp;#x27;t need a reason to fire you. The result could be that not only would your bosses be able to pry into your sex life, but they&amp;#x27;d be able to give you the boot just for admitting you&amp;#x27;ve gotten it on if they don&amp;#x27;t agree with your beliefs. Sorry...what? Even I could barely believe that sentence as I typed it. It gets even more head-scratching: the bill was authored by a woman, Majority Whip Debbie Lesko (R): &amp;amp;#8220;I believe we live in America. We don&amp;amp;#8217;t live in the Soviet Union. So, government should not be telling the organizations or mom and pop employers to do something against their moral beliefs.&amp;amp;#8221; Sorry if this is TMI, lovelies, but as someone who was prescribed birth control pills at age 16 for hormone regulation related to PCOS, this is capital-S Scary. I love my job! And, um, keeping certain things out of the office, to surface only at girltime. How does this prospect make you feel? Do you think Arizona Majority Whip Lesko is right, and that government should stay hands off matters like this, or do you think this is going too far?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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