Recently the Supreme Court heard Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, a case concerning a key provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that required employers’ health insurance plans to offer contraceptive coverage for their employees. Hobby Lobby, who officially won the case yesterday, sued to be exempted from the provision due to the “deeply held religious beliefs” of their company that being required to offer birth control coverage to their employees is equivalent to abortion. It is important to note that Hobby Lobby’s 401K program invests in pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers that produce various forms of birth control – from the pill to emergency contraception to the IUD – as well as drugs used during procedures in abortion care.
The case deeply divided the court with the concurring side being all five male justices while the dissenting side was all four female justices. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in particular wrote a sharp dissenting opinion, saying that the court, she fears, “has ventured into a minefield.”
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