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It is quite hard to take the claims by Hobby Lobby seriously. The main drugs in question in the case brought before the Supreme Court are the emergency contraceptives Plan-B and Ella. One huge problem with this situation is that up until 2012, Hobby Lobby provided them as part of their insurance plan. Only when they realized that Obamacare was going to mandate this coverage did they suddenly become interested in not providing these drugs.
In their initial complaint to the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, Hobby Lobby stated, After learning about the current HHS mandate controversy...Hobby Lobby discovered that the formulary for its prescription drug policy included two drugs - Plan B and Ella - that could cause an abortion (pg. 15, pt. #55). This is a huge indictment upon the Green family and Hobby Lobby.
How can they be expected to be taken seriously when the precise drugs they want relief from providing, they provided in the past? What does it say about their commitment to the unborn that they had no clue that they have been for years providing the drugs which they assert can cause abortions?
The Catholic Church, which has a long history of opposing contraceptives and abortions, claims that the issue is one of deeply held religious beliefs. The Catholic Church has a long and consistent history of opposition. Hobby Lobby, not so much.
Of course, as most people know, the nonsense goes further. The overwhelming majority of mainstream doctors and medical organizations scoff at the pseudoscientific claims that these drugs cause abortions. Even the official journal of the Catholic Health Association, Health Progress, came to the conclusion that Plan-B does not cause abortions.
Read More at: http://www.reddirtreport.com/prairie-opinions/hobby-lobby-provided-emergency-contraceptives-they-opposed-them
ramblin_dave
(1,546 posts)In 2012, a lawyer for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonprofit Washington law firm, called Hobby Lobby's general counsel to inform him of the health law's contraception requirement and to ask whether the company wanted to file a suit.
Mr. Green says he was shocked to discover Hobby Lobby was in fact offering in its insurance plan some of the emergency contraceptives at issue. He called for the insurer to revoke that coverage and signed onto the lawsuit.
okaawhatever
(9,453 posts)plans as well. They weren't opposed until the ACA. They could make the case that insurance companies requiring it and the gov't requiring are two different things, but that wouldn't sway me.