Saturday, July 5, 2014

The Hobby Lobby Case

© 2014 Rick Adamson
By Rick Adamson 7.5.14

The liberals have gone ballistic over the court’s ruling. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said the decision was “an outrageous step against the rights of America’s women.” (where, in the Constitution, does it say that women have a right to have their employer pay for birth control?) 


Also see PolitiFact rates ‘False’ Nancy Pelosi’s claim about SCOTUS decision as False


Hilarious, ok excuse me, Hillary said “It’s very troubling that a salesclerk at Hobby Lobby who needs contraception, which is pretty expensive, is not going to get that service through her employer’s health-care plan because her employer doesn’t think she should be using contraception.”


Also see Two Pinocchios for Hillary on Hobby Lobby

Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) labeled it “a dangerous precedent and takes us closer to a time in history when women had no choice and no voice.” (we are not talking about choice, of course a woman has choices, its about whether an employer has to pay for choices that they do not believe in)

Senator Elizabeth Warren said she “Can’t believe we live in a world where we’d even consider letting big corps deny women access to basic care based on vague moral objections.” (we are not talking about big corps but family owned businesses)




This is just more of the Democrats’ effort to divide and conquer, to promote the idea that there is a war of women. It is so ridicules.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest made it clear that Barack Obama was on the side of the dissenters. Moreover, he tried to drape the U.S. Constitution around his boss, when he said, “the Constitutional lawyer in the Oval Office disagrees with that conclusion from the Supreme Court.”

Constitutional Lawyer? Thats a joke.

You would think that, based on these comments, the Court was trying to remove a woman’s right to vote!

There is no war on women. All we are talking about is whether a family owned company can be forced, by FedGov, to pay for something that they do not believe in. The answer in no and that is the correct answer.

The constitution does not provide for the number of vacation days, holidays or sick days an employer must provide. Nor does it say that health insurance must be provided although Obamacare does. The market will determine these things. These benefits (not rights) are provided by employers in order to attract employees. They have to offer certain benefits otherwise their employees will elect to work for someone else.

Please note that the cheapest thing for Hobby Lobby to have done was to eliminate all healthcare coverage for all employees and pay a small fine. They did not want to do that but they did not want to pay for a few specific types of contraceptives that they felt violated their religious beliefs. I think they have that right.  See 
more...  and http://adamrick.blogspot.com/2013/12/healthcare-is-personal-thing.html 

http://adamrick.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-cost-of-health-care.html

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