Employers must not limit health coverage

In 2000, Iowa passed a law requiring all employers to provide contraceptive drug coverage if the policy pays for any prescription drugs (www.ncsl.org/issues-research/health/insurance-coverage-for-contraception-state-laws. aspx).

Twenty-eight other states do the same. Some exclude churches, but all require “religious” hospitals and universities to comply. An employer is an employer is an employer.

Employers that are churches still do not have the right to limit coverage based on conscience any more than Oral Roberts University can discriminate on admission based on color and still receive federal money. The pork analogy in the Feb. 12 guest column (“United for freedom of conscience against government intrusion”) is ridiculous. The Gazette should have rejected the column based on its naivete.

Ken Daiker

Iowa City