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Little Sisters Win SCOTUS Battle!!!

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    Mik
    wrote on 8 Jul 2020, 14:16 last edited by Mik 7 Aug 2020, 14:25
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    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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      jon-nyc
      wrote on 8 Jul 2020, 14:43 last edited by
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      With concurrence of Breyer and Kagan.

      Only non-witches get due process.

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        George K
        wrote on 8 Jul 2020, 17:31 last edited by
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        This is how CNN framed it:

        Supreme Court says Trump can weaken Obamacare contraceptive mandate

        The Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to expand exemptions for employers who have religious or moral objections to complying with the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate.

        The 7-2 ruling reverses a lower court decision that had blocked Trump's move nationwide.

        The ruling is a win for President Donald Trump, who has vowed to act aggressively to protect what he and other conservatives frame as religious liberty, as well as for the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Roman Catholic religious order for women who, along with the Trump administration, asked the court to step in.

        The lawsuit against HHS was filed by the Little Sisters in 2013, and SCOTUS granted cert in 2016.

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          jon-nyc
          wrote on 8 Jul 2020, 17:36 last edited by
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          Yeah, that’s messed up. Trump doesn’t get to, Trump has to. Just like Biden would.

          Only non-witches get due process.

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            8 Jul 2020, 17:36

            Yeah, that’s messed up. Trump doesn’t get to, Trump has to. Just like Biden would.

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            George K
            wrote on 9 Jul 2020, 20:22 last edited by
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            @jon-nyc said in Little Sisters Win SCOTUS Battle!!!:

            Yeah, that’s messed up. Trump doesn’t get to, Trump has to. Just like Biden would.

            You'd better let Joe know:

            Biden Says He Would Rescind Exemption for Little Sisters of the Poor

            Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden issued a statement Wednesday evening in which he said he is “disappointed in today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision” in the case Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania.

            “I will restore the Obama-Biden policy that existed before the [2014 Supreme Court] Hobby Lobby ruling,” Biden said.

            The Supreme Court’s Little Sisters decision upheld the Trump administration’s rule exempting conscientious objectors from Obamacare’s birth-control and abortifacient mandate, but the decision did not address whether the mandate is itself a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

            Here’s Biden’s full statement:

            Health care is a right that should not be dependent on race, gender, income or zip code. Yet as a result of today’s decision, countless women are at risk of losing access to affordable, preventive care.

            I am disappointed in today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision that will make it easier for the Trump-Pence Administration to continue to strip health care from women – attempting to carve out broad exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s commitment to giving all women free access to recommended contraception.

            As a result of the Affordable Care Act, more than 60 million women – including at least 32 million women of color – gained access to this preventative health care. The Obama-Biden Administration did this while also providing an exemption for houses of worship and an accommodation for nonprofit organizations with religious missions.

            As disappointing as the Supreme Court’s ruling is, there is a clear path to fixing it: electing a new President who will end Donald Trump’s ceaseless attempts to gut every aspect of the Affordable Care Act. If I am elected, I will restore the Obama-Biden policy that existed before the Hobby Lobby ruling: providing an exemption for houses of worship and an accommodation for nonprofit organizations with religious missions. The accommodation will allow women at these organizations to access contraceptive coverage, not through their employer-provided plan, but instead through their insurance company or a third-party administrator.

            The so-called “accommodation” is the very policy that the Little Sisters of the Poor, an order of Catholic nuns that provide care to the elderly, were fighting in court on the grounds that the policy still required them to violate their moral and religious convictions.

            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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