Title: Hobby Lobby 101: explaining the Supreme Court's birth control ruling - CSMonitor.com
Headings: Hobby Lobby 101: explaining the Supreme Court's birth control ruling
Hobby Lobby 101: explaining the Supreme Court's birth control ruling
July 10, 2014
What was the basis of the owners’ religious objections?
What Supreme Court’s jettisoning of precedent may mean for future
Do they oppose all birth control?
Some religious owners of corporations oppose all birth control. Are those employers now entitled to eliminate birth control in every form from their company health care plans?
What was the basis for the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision?
Did the First Amendment ’s guarantee of free exercise of religion apply in the Hobby Lobby case?
Why didn’t the First Amendment apply in the Hobby Lobby case?
How does the Religious Freedom Restoration Act protect religious liberty?
What would be the least restrictive means of providing cost-free contraceptives to female workers at Hobby Lobby?
Don’t women have a constitutional right to access to birth control and abortion?
Doesn’t a company owner’s insistence on a religious accommodation result in the imposition of his or her religious beliefs on employees?
What kind of accommodation will the government authorize in the wake of the Hobby Lobby decision?
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Content: The court majority rejected it. The clash between the religious rights of company owners and the workers’ rights to receive government benefits is a direct result of the government’s contraception mandate. It is up to the government – not company owners – to fashion an accommodation that respects both the religious rights of owners and the rights of workers, the high court said. What kind of accommodation will the government authorize in the wake of the Hobby Lobby decision? It is still unclear. A White House spokesman has said President Obama favors an effort in Congress to overturn the high court decision by amending RFRA. Democrats in the House of Representatives are drafting a bill called the Protect Women’s Health from Corporate Interference Act of 2014. It would exempt federally-mandated health services from RFRA. Politics with respect
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