The owners of Hobby Lobby have been engaged in a battle with Kathleen Sebelius and HHS over their right to refuse to pay for abortifacients for their employees. Today, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Hobby Lobby’s case:
Big day at Supreme Court for Hobby Lobby & other businesses of faith challenging Obamacare http://t.co/7wPYX10gsT
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) November 26, 2013
===>MT @PRNAlert #SCOTUS takes up Hobby Lobby case. #hhsmandate http://t.co/pMlXBoGkVD
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) November 26, 2013
From PR Newswire:
The nation’s highest court accepted the federal government’s appeal of a June decision by the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals that a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate to provide potentially life-terminating drugs and devices in employee insurance plans places a substantial burden on the religious freedoms of Hobby Lobby, which is solely owned by founder David Green and his family.
“This is a major step for the Greens and their family businesses in an important fight for Americans’ religious liberty,” said Kyle Duncan, general counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and lead lawyer for Hobby Lobby. “We are hopeful that the Supreme Court will clarify once and for all that religious freedom in our country should be protected for family business owners like the Greens.”
Naturally, the White House is pitching a fit:
Birth control should be a woman’s decision, not her boss’s —> http://t.co/6GOsuOGzU2, pic.twitter.com/iiFzaa8fyI
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) November 26, 2013
Birth control should be a woman’s decision, not her boss’s —> http://t.co/mo2jcHqt91 , pic.twitter.com/Qt77Hm1Y2K
— J Earnest (Archived) (@PressSec44) November 26, 2013
In written statement, WH says birth control provision "is lawful and essential to women’s health." WH confident SCOTUS will uphold.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) November 26, 2013
And Dems are flipping their lids:
[RT if you agree] BIRTH CONTROL: It’s a woman’s decision, not her boss’s. #SCOTUS #HandsOffMyBC pic.twitter.com/pBvU9dzFZs
— Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) November 26, 2013
I hope the Court won't allow employers to end Obamacare's guarantee of free contraception coverage for women. pic.twitter.com/mW3TxWjJ1M
— Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) November 26, 2013
RT @PPact: Birth control is basic health care for millions of women—employers shouldn't get to take that away. #HandsOffMyBC
— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) November 26, 2013
With the Hobby Lobby vs. Sebelius case, I fully expect SCOTUS to side with the American people. http://t.co/5GhsbBN15F #StandWithWomen
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz (@DWStweets) November 26, 2013
But here’s the thing: Not only are the Dems unjustly outraged that a privately owned company wants to exercise its First Amendment rights, but they’re actively lying about the Hobby Lobby situation:
@WhiteHouse get your facts straight please. Hobby Lobby already covers my birth control, they don't want to cover anyones abortion.
— kristine heimler (@krisheimler) November 26, 2013
The Greens and their family businesses – who have no moral objection to providing 16 of the 20 FDA-approved contraceptives required under the HHS mandate and do so at no additional cost to employees under their self-insured health plan – then took the unusual step in October of joining the government in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case, despite the family’s victory in the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. [Emphasis ours.]
So the issue here isn’t the Greens’ refusal to provide employees with birth control. What Democrats have a problem with is that the Greens aren’t willing to compromise their faith in order to bend to the will of the government, which, by the way, should play no role in health care in the first place.
WH says Pres Obama believes "no one, including the government or for-profit corporations" should dictate birth control decisions to women.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) November 26, 2013
Guess what, Mr. President: Birth control, like the rest of health care, is none of the government’s damn business.
Or the Govt RT @PressSec: Birth control should be a woman’s decision, not her boss’s —> http://t.co/N9fYMka6BX , pic.twitter.com/0FRBAOU1th
— Cooper Daves (@CooperDaves) November 26, 2013
“@WhiteHouse: Birth control should be a woman’s decision, not her boss’s" // Great argument against government-mandated health insurance.
— 3rd String Villain (@BBBE555) November 26, 2013
Exactly.
If female employees decide they need birth control, and it isn’t covered by their employer, they can pay for it themselves.
Not at the taxpayers expense “@WhiteHouse: Birth control should be a woman’s decision, not her boss’s —> pic.twitter.com/s6F0JWjSm3”
— Kylie Jane Kremer (@KylieJaneKremer) November 26, 2013
FACT: Last time I checked, we can buy it at the pharmacy. RT @WhiteHouse: Birth control should be a woman’s decision, not her boss’s
— ?SúperStabbyLatina ? (@SuperAndrea) November 26, 2013
The cost should be hers, not mine. RT @PressSec Birth control should be a woman’s decision, not her boss’s —> pic.twitter.com/Xn6ARVpwws
— L.M.Whistleblower (@laurenmarie10) November 26, 2013
https://twitter.com/rachelveronica/status/405397187850285056
So should paying for it. MT @WhiteHouse: Birth control should be a woman’s decision, not her boss’s.
— Michelle Ray (@GaltsGirl) November 26, 2013
That’s what being empowered is all about, right?
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