The facts about the Hobby Lobby decision

Posted

The left, lead by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, has resorted to lying to the American people about Supreme Court decisions.  Mrs. Pelosi is known for her crazy comments (“we had to pass the [ACA] to know what is in it”).  But, like me, Reid is a lawyer, and knows better.  Many of the local comments about decisions like Citizens United and Hobby Lobby are equally lame, made by people who obviously haven’t read the decisions.

Here are the facts about the Hobby Lobby decision:

Women are not being denied access to contraceptives.  Hobby Lobby voluntarily provides coverage for 16 forms of contraception, which, by definition, are drugs/devices that prevent fertilization.  The four drugs/devices at issue destroy an already fertilized egg (i.e. an embryo), causing an abortion.  The owners of Hobby Lobby have a valid religious objection to paying for this.

The court found that the federal government has already provided a viable alternative for payment that it is applying to religious nonprofit corporations, and it ruled that closely held for profit corporations with religious objections could apply that alternative.  In effect, the federal government is now paying for those four drugs/devices.  I say again, nobody is being denied access.

The left’s rhetoric is anti-catholic, agist, and sexist (“five old catholic men”), and asserts that men shouldn’t decide issues having to do with women.  I remind you that an all (old) male court decided Roe v. Wade.



As to the constant bellyaching about corporate “personhood,” I quote from the Dictionary Act (1 USC 1), passed by Congress, not the Supreme Court:

“In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress .... the words ‘person’ and ‘whoever’ include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals.”

My apologies to all anti-Supreme Court zealots if I confused you with facts.

Rick Hauser

Battle Ground