Corporations don't have uteruses. Why should they make decisions about mine?

AS A WARNING, I'm a complete and utter socialist. Huge socialist. Scary, passionate socialist. Like "Jesus-is-my-role-model" socialist (How is Jesus a socialist?? Jesus donated everything he had to the poor, yelled at rich people and businesses for being in a religious temple-separation of church and state, and hung out with lepers, prostitutes, etc, and wanted society to treat them better. That's socialism). You've been warned.

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Capitalism is just another form of imperialism. I mean, think about it. Corporations make me think of imperialist England. They take over everything to make easy money. Spreading their "English values" and the Queen's money everywhere is the equivalent of a successful marketing campaign. Everything is done because "it's just good business."

*casually sips tea as he destroys the independence of millions of people* #nbd

"Good business" also consists of exploiting the common man: the worker. How often do we hear of corporations outsourcing their labor practices to foreign country sweatshops due to the cheap labor expenses for them? The corporations don't care about the horrendous mistreatment of the workers in those sweatshops; they care about the cheap labor costs. When corporations get involved, everyone and everything turn into dollar signs. People are nothing more than expenses and if you want to make money, you need to cut expenses.

When the Supreme Court ruled that corporations were people and money was a form of expression and couldn't be restricted, corporations had equal, if not more rights than people like you and me. If you've ever heard of Colbert's criticisms on SuperPACs during elections, the anonymous donations of large sums of money to political campaigns exist because of Citizens United. Corporations have the right to donate money to which ever campaign and politician they want, and you bet they have interests met by these politicians in return. (If you want to cry yourself to sleep, look up Pearson and the privatization of education. If they have it their way, each education student will have to go to "Pearson college" to become a teacher. We already have to get approved by Pearson to get our certification because of how much money the corporation has donated to the government...#educationmajorprobs)

What does the Citizens United ruling have to do with the Hobby Lobby ruling? Because corporations are considered people, the religious beliefs of the CEOs are the religious beliefs of the corporation's persona. According to the Sarah Mirk article, "The ruling says that requiring “closely held” companies to cover birth control options violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993." How does this translate into real life? So say little Sally worker bee needs birth control that the CEO claims go against the religious beliefs of the corporation, the corporation's religious beliefs would be equally as valid as Sally's need for medication. Scary, right? And who's got more money invested in the government, a corporation or minimum wage Sally? 

Want to know something even scarier? Walmart is considered a "closely-held" corporation. So, "Even family-owned Walmart Inc., with its 1.3 million employees, the third largest employer in the country, would qualify."

The sad thing about this ruling is well, everything. Let's just look at how the decision in the Supreme Court was made. All the men voted in favor of Hobby Lobby, and all the women voted against it. Even though, statistically speaking, the average person has one fallopian tube, clearly the men on the Supreme Court do not have a uterus. And given how few women are CEOs, isn't this ruling clear inequality, as the women that are affected by this decision are being told what they can and cannot do with their bodies by men with more money and/or privilege? How does the Supreme Court truly be representative of true justice if even the Lady of Justice isn't accurately represented in these decisions?

On top of the loss of female bodily autonomy, the reasons for the corporations being "against birth control" are medically inaccurate. Science is being ignored over religious beliefs that are entirely unfounded. Because this religious belief was prioritized over medical facts, the corporation is allowed to deny coverage to these women in need and their belief perpetuates misinformation about birth control. Birth control does not cause abortions in and of itself, and not covering birth control will only increase the need for actual abortions. Especially for women who cannot afford to get birth control on their own. 

Birth control isn't just used to prevent unwanted pregnancies. It's used as acne medication. A treatment for ovarian cysts, which are super painful. A way to regulate periods. A preventative measure for PMDD. It keeps young women from needing hysterectomies at young ages. It's keeping one of my friend's alive at the moment. Uteruses ain't nothing to mess with. If they need something, it'd be in your best interest to give them what they want. 

So yeah, unrestricted capitalism is the equivalent to imperialism when it comes to screwing the common person. Oh your health needs are expensive and "go against" our religious beliefs despite science taking your side? Our money and power say our religious beliefs are more important. 

Maybe it's just the radical feminist and socialist in me, but honestly, nothing would make me happier than seeing the "it's just good business" excuse for capitalism end up like this: