"The 8 Best Lines From Ginsburg's Dissent on the Hobby Lobby Contraception Decision"

The 8 Best Lines From Ginsburg's Dissent on the Hobby Lobby Contraception Decision

By Dana Liebelson at Mother Jones

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/best-lines-hobby-lobby-decision

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◾"Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community."

◾"Any decision to use contraceptives made by a woman covered under Hobby Lobby's or Conestoga's plan will not be propelled by the Government, it will be the woman's autonomous choice, informed by the physician she consults."

◾"It bears note in this regard that the cost of an IUD is nearly equivalent to a month's full-time pay for workers earning the minimum wage."

◾"Would the exemption…extend to employers with religiously grounded objections to blood transfusions (Jehovah's Witnesses); antidepressants (Scientologists); medications derived from pigs, including anesthesia, intravenous fluids, and pills coated with gelatin (certain Muslims, Jews, and Hindus); and vaccinations[?]…Not much help there for the lower courts bound by today's decision."


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