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970 WBLF. I’m Wes Richards with some thoughts on the Hobby Lobby Supreme court decision.
By now, you’ve heard about this. Five male supreme court justices have ruled that if you *CAN* get pregnant and you work for hobby lobby, you’ll pay for your own birth control.
Hobby Lobby is a chain of home project stores that sell “inspirational” books, Ball jars, ribbons, white glue, sewing thread, stuffed puppies and “World’s Greatest Grandma” coffee mugs, along with junk stones and other things for people with no life for which they substitute costume jewelry making.
The people who run the place, the Green family, have decided that because theyhear voices that tell them birth control is abortion and abortion is murder, they have the right to violate the Affordable Care Act, which requires birth control be made available to women who request it.
And the supreme court says, OK, you can withdraw the morning after pill and the IUD from the list of things your medical insurance will pay for.
The Lobbyists say, look, little girl, we pay you above minimum wage. We give you Sundays off. So… what’s a couple of reproductive drugs and devices that’s getting you all riled up. We have sincere religious beliefs, you know.
One of the few associate justices who is not nuts, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, says -- quote -- the court has stepped into a minefield.
And it won’t be long before someone steps on one of those mines… one the court hadn’t detected.
That’s right. This is simply another of the thousand cuts the court is making into reproductive rights.
Its intention is to whittle them down to nothing.
If the business were owned by sincere Christian Scientists, would they then have the right to withdraw from all pharmaceuticals for their employees?
How about sincere religions that forbid transfusions… or vaccinations?
The Hobby Lobby decision really has nothing to do with the company’s sincerely held religious beliefs. That’s only an excuse to overturn established law in the name of sincerity… for which there is no effective test.
I’m Wes Richards. My opinions are my own but you’re welcome to them. ®
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