WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a key regulation in President Barack Obama’s signature health care legislation is illegal as applied to millions of Americans of faith, as well as their businesses or organizations.
In Obamacare’s second round before the nation’s highest court, Justice Samuel Alito wrote the opinion in the 5-to-4 rebuke of the Obama administration for violating the individual rights of American citizens, holding the so-called HHS Abortion Pill Mandate violates religious liberty protected by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA).Obama’s beleaguered Affordable Care Act includes a requirement that all employers offering insurance must make “preventive care” part of their healthcare package. The White House decided that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services would issue a regulation declaring “preventive care” includes numerous forms of birth control, including at least four that cause abortions in pregnant women.Two Christian-owned companies—home retail giant Hobby Lobby and a much smaller business, Conestoga Wood Specialties—filed suit. Hobby Lobby is owned by the Green family, who are Evangelical. Conestoga Wood Specialties is owned by the Hahn family, who are Mennonite.Employers who provide healthcare without the abortion-pill coverage face a fine of $100 per employee, per day (meaning $36,500 per year for each worker). For Hobby Lobby, that would mean a penalty of $1.4 million per day, or approximately $500 million per year.Because the Court held that this regulation violates a federal law, it did not need to reach the larger question of whether this Obamacare mandate also violates Americans’ First Amendment right to freely exercise their religion.
Pretty huge.
Zippedy doo dah, everything's going your way today, smell the roses and be grateful your America still stands.
ReplyDeleteI think the message here is that the response has to be political. We have a politicized Supreme Court. We will meet them on the political grounds. We will defeat them. We need to reverse the 30-year campaign by the right wing to take over the federal courts and that's my organization's job and we'll be working with our allies and I think we'll succeed." --Terry O'Neill, the president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
ReplyDeleteHow about you? WHere do you stand on this?
ReplyDeleteI'm cool with it, whatever, the Supreme Court ruled again. That is 4 in a row for your ilk who sounded like Terry O'Neill after the last one they lost. I am not a decision carper.
ReplyDeleteAfter all these decades, I still don't have a handle on what your core principles are.
ReplyDeleteNot sure I have any other than love and kindness. Don't know mind.
ReplyDelete"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."--Dalai Lama
"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."-John Steinbeck
ReplyDeleteNot sayin' it's the right tack, just sayin' others agree with me. Fight on, fight on, if that is what rings your bell. Some take a look at history and just sigh...
ReplyDeleteAlan Dershowitz is not getting all worked up about it either:
ReplyDelete"They regard these four or five methods of contraception as abortion and as murder, and they just don't want to be part of it. I don't blame them for that, especially since there are alternatives. The Supreme Court made it clear: this is not as if they would refuse to vaccinate their employees, because vaccination protects all of us. This is something that can easily be balanced . . . It's a win, win . . . Ten years from now or five years from now. no one will remember this decision.''
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