Monday, April 18, 2016

The Obama Administration Is Out Of Patience For The Supreme Court's Birth Control Tomfoolery | ThinkProgress

Zubik v. Burwell should have been a very easy case.

Before the Supreme Court set off a doctrinal earthquake in its 2014 Hobby Lobby decision, the justices had struck a careful balance between the rights of religious objectors and the need to maintain the rule of law in a pluralistic society. Religious people enjoyed broad rights to act according to their own religious conscience, but they could not wield religious objections to limit the rights of others. Thus, when religious objectors claimed that their objections to contraception should trump federal rules guaranteeing that many women would have access to birth control, previous law protected the rights of those women.

Yet, even as Hobby Lobby cast a cloud of doubt over this longstanding balance, it seemed to contain a significant silver lining for women seeking contraception....
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/04/13/3768919/the-obama-administration-is-out-of-patience-for-the-supreme-courts-birth-control-tomfoolery/


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