Corporate Rights Trump Women’s Health in Hobby Lobby Ruling
‘This ruling goes out of its way to declare that discrimination against women isn’t discrimination.’
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Defenders of women’s health and reproductive freedom are reacting with anger to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Monday which ruled that an employer with religious objection can opt out of providing contraception coverage to their employees under the Affordable Care Act.
Writing for the majority side of the 5-4 decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, Justice Samuel Alito argued that the “the HHS mandate demands that they engage in conduct that seriously violates their religious beliefs.”
Rights advocates were quick to condemn the court’s decision.
“Today’s decision from five male justices is a direct attack on women and our fundamental rights. This ruling goes out of its way to declare that discrimination against women isn’t discrimination,” said Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.
“Allowing bosses this much control over the health-care decisions of their employees is a slippery slope with no end,” Hogue continued. “Every American could potentially be affected by this far-reaching and shocking decision that allows bosses to reach beyond the boardroom and into their employees’ bedrooms. The majority claims that its ruling is limited, but that logic doesn’t hold up. Today it’s birth control; tomorrow it could be any personal medical decision, from starting a family to getting life-saving vaccinations or blood transfusions.”
The opinion was based largely on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which provides that a law that burdens a person’s religious beliefs must be justified by a compelling government interest.
Following the ruling, the secular advocacy group Center for Inquiry released a statementsaying: “Today the Court made clear it does not view Americans’ access to medically necessary health care as a compelling government interest, and announced loud and clear that the religious preferences of employers take preference over the health needs of workers.”
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What an unbelievable load of garbage. No one’s health care is being denied, no boss is in anyone’s bedroom but his/her own and birth control is not a ‘fundamental right’.
If you want birth control, go out and buy it, no one will stop you. Your employer does not have to pay for it if they choose not to pay for your ‘sexual protection’.
If you want people to stand up for your rights, you have to stand up for other people’s rights. That includes religious freedom, conscience and morality.
The CPUSA is doing a fine job in their part of agitating and destroying the country.
I have a more accurate title for you: ‘Freedom of religion trumps employers having to pay for birth control’
This has nothing to do with women’s health.