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Hobby Lobby Draws Protests Over Recent Supreme Court Ruling

July 11, 2014 Susan Abram, www.dailynews.com , , , ,
One protester brought a hanger. Another dressed like a vagina. And dozens carried signs to demand that the U.S. government stop the war on women. The graphic costumes, props and banners were part of a demonstration on Monday of about 50 people who marched and chanted outside of a new Hobby Lobby store in Burbank. Protesters said they were angry with last week’s Supreme Court ruling that will allow some for-profit companies with strong religious beliefs such as Hobby Lobby to opt out of covering birth control under the Affordable Care Act. The decision, many said, gives corporations too much power on deciding what women employees can and can’t do with their bodies and it throws reproduction rights far back into the past. Protesters called on customers entering the store to turn around and shop elsewhere. “It’s very obvious that the five males on the Supreme Court want to return to a time when women were barefoot and pregnant,” said Lauren Steiner, who organized the demonstration, and who dressed in pink to mimic a vagina.

US Female Justices Issue Fierce Dissent On Contraception Ruling

July 7, 2014 Amanda Holpuch, www.theguardian.com , ,
The US supreme court late Thursday ruled in favor of a Christian college that believes the contraception mandate of US healthcare law burdens the school, inciting forceful dissent from the three female justices in the nation’s highest court. In an unsigned, provisional order, the court granted a Christian college a temporary exemption from having to provide full contraception coverage to its employees and students as is mandated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This decision comes days after the court’s 5-4 decision in Burwell v Hobby Lobby, which provided small, for-profit corporations with a similar exemption. The court’s three females justices – Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan – said Thursday’s ruling introduced unnecessary layers of bureaucracy, altered the interpretation of the Hobby Lobby ruling and “undermines confidence in this institution.” “Those who are bound by our decisions usually believe they can take us at our word,” Sotomayor wrote. “Not so today.” Last year, the Obama administration finalized its rules that grant churches an exemption to the mandate under the ACA. These provisions also allows religious nonprofits to request exemption by filing a form to its insurance issuer or third-party administrator.
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