{"id":41708,"date":"2015-06-03T14:53:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T18:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=41708"},"modified":"2015-06-03T14:53:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T18:53:31","slug":"house-votes-to-overturn-d-c-reproductive-health-discrimination-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2015\/06\/house-votes-to-overturn-d-c-reproductive-health-discrimination-law\/","title":{"rendered":"House Votes To Overturn D.C. Reproductive Health Discrimination Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/04\/30\/dc-reproductive-health-_n_7185902.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/n-BLACK-large570.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The House vote targeted the Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Amendment Act passed by the District&#8217;s council last year. The city legislation aimed to prohibit employers from discriminating against employees accessing in-vitro fertilization, using birth control, having premarital sex or seeking an abortion. The measure would have added reproductive health to the city&#8217;s other employment discrimination protections.<\/p>\n<p>Congress has the power to stop laws passed by the D.C. council, but the House hadn&#8217;t voted to do so in 23 years. Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) introduced the House version of the resolution, with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) offering the Senate&#8217;s measure. Black&#8217;s bill on Thursday passed 228 to 192, with 13 Republicans voting against it and three Democrats in favor.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives have argued the city law would violate religious employers&#8217; religious liberty, suggesting they could be forced to hire applicants whose beliefs conflicted with their own or be compelled to cover contraception and abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the law\u2019s supporters in the big-abortion lobby claim that this act protects against discrimination, the truth is this oppressive measure directly targets the First Amendment freedoms of pro-life and faith-based employers in our nation\u2019s capital,\u201d Black said in a statement before the vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em>House Votes To Overturn D.C. Reproductive Health Discrimination Law<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House vote targeted the Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Amendment Act passed by the District&#8217;s council last year. The city legislation aimed to prohibit employers from discriminating against employees accessing in-vitro fertilization, using birth control, having premarital sex or seeking an abortion. The measure would have added reproductive health to the city&#8217;s other employment discrimination protections&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,5,17,22],"tags":[835,1825,1040,1824],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41708"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41711,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41708\/revisions\/41711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}