Hobby Lobby Wins. Women Lose.
In a move that has ominous implications for the future of female reproductive rights—among other human health rights—the Supreme Court ruled that Hobby Lobby founders' (scientifically erroneous) belief that birth control equals abortion means the corporation doesn't have to cover it. In her dissent, Ruth Bader Ginsburg called this "a decision of startling breadth" that would allow corporations to "opt out of any law … they judge incompatible with their sincerely held religious beliefs."
We're posting Lady Parts Justice's History of Birth Control to protest this most recent, and most unfortunate, chapter.
also, there's this...
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A company has a right to choose too. A woman still has the right to choose as well – to boycott that store, to work at another place, or to pay for her contraception herself.
She doesn’t have the right to compel someone else to purchase it for her, in violation of their religious beliefs.
A conversation about this with my kid:
Him: “Did the Supreme Court vote on it?”
Me: “Yes.”
Him: “But there weren’t enough women on the Supreme Court. So it wasn’t really fair.”
Simple enough for a child to understand, but too complicated for the country.
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