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spanone

(135,767 posts)
Sat Jul 5, 2014, 08:55 AM Jul 2014

Supreme Court women lash out at birth control decision

Washington (CNN) --

It was a disappointing week for the women of the Supreme Court.
All three -- Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor -- were on the losing side of rulings involving women's reproductive health.

First came the Hobby Lobby decision, in which the high court decided 5-4 that the government cannot force certain for-profit companies to offer contraception coverage under Obamacare.

Then another decision emerged late on Thursday in which a Chicago-area evangelical college won a temporary victory over the requirement in the 2010 health care law that religious non-profits provide contraception insurance to their workers.

Wheaton College objected to potential fines if it refused to provide coverage or sign a release form, arguing that doing so would be morally wrong. The Supreme Court said the college didn't have to do either for now.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/04/politics/supreme-court-women/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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Supreme Court women lash out at birth control decision (Original Post) spanone Jul 2014 OP
chip, chip, chip away until there is nothing left. rurallib Jul 2014 #1
And that has been the plan all along. Arkansas Granny Jul 2014 #4
And our Dems allowed the conservatives into power on the SCOTUS. Katashi_itto Jul 2014 #2
I am looking forward to reading this dissent Gothmog Jul 2014 #3

Arkansas Granny

(31,504 posts)
4. And that has been the plan all along.
Sat Jul 5, 2014, 10:30 AM
Jul 2014

If they can't ban women's reproductive choices outright, they will just add one restriction after another until they achieve the desired result. It's all about control.

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