The 8 Best Lines From Ginsburg's Dissent on the Hobby Lobby Contraception Decision

Mother (F) Jones ^ | 6-30-2014 | Dana Liebelson

[Ray76]

Ginsburg and the wise latino et al are the ones wrecking havoc on society.

[cableguymn]

save the money and e-mail it to them and tell them to print it and use for TP.

No sense wasting your own ink/toner and paper.

[The Great RJ]

The very idea that women are somehow denied access to contraception unless big government is paying for it or making others pay is ludicrous. What about the millions of federal dollars being paid to Planned Parenthood ...doesn't PP hand out condoms and BC pills like popcorn to any woman who walks in the door? I see just about every pharmacy has the abortion pill, Plan B, displayed in plain sight and available without prescription to any female without any question about her age. It is easier for a young girl under 16 to get Plan B than to get her ears pierced or tattooed. Condoms are available not only in pharmacies but even grocery stores, Wal Marts, gas station convenience stores not to mention being handed out free on college campuses and high schools. Young girls barely into puberty can buy condoms or a month's BC pills for less than the cost of a latte at Starbucks and get an abortion without parental permission for less than the cost of her cell phone. To say that Puritanical Conservatives would deny women access to contraception without big daddy government's intervention is a flat out lie.

[grania]

ignorant or lying(Ginsburg calling methods of abortion "contraception")

How about Satanic? People who think that way do not recognize abortion as murder

[cableguymn]

sorry to hear about your troubles but I do have a question..

O-care does not force them to pay for it?

[Swordmaker]

"Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the very 'risk the [Constitution's] Establishment Clause was designed to preclude."

Simple solution: get the government OUT health care coverage, medical decisions, and individual funding of their care. It should never have put its camel's nose there in the first place.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

“It bears note in this regard that the cost of an IUD is nearly equivalent to a month’s full-time pay for workers earning the minimum wage.”

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Hobby Lobby chooses not to cover “abortificant's.” An IUD is NOT an abortificant. I'll go out on a limb and guess that IUDs are covered by Hobby Lobby's insurance plan.

[frog in a pot]

The most disturbing part IMO, as was the case with some of the recent 2d A holdings, this was a 5/4 decision. It would seem we are on the brink in several major regards.

[EDINVA]

“The exemption sought by Hobby Lobby and Conestoga would...deny legions of women who do not hold their employers’ beliefs access to contraceptive coverage.”

LEGIONS? Seriously, legions? How many pro-choice women are going to choose to work with Hobby Lobby or any other ‘closely held’ company that is so open, firm and clear in its guiding Christian beliefs?

[Ouchthatonehurt]

“The court, I fear, has ventured into a minefield.”

Yeah, it needs to get back to solid stuff like “emanations” and “penumbras”

[Mr. K]

please let this old buzzard survive long enough to outlive Obama’s terms in office

[hulagirl]

I thought abortion was in there, in the health insurance. It isn’t? I’d be surprised. I know he said we wouldn’t have to pay for abortions but I never believe what he says.

[RightGeek]

LOL - good question.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Exactly, RC.

BTW, This is how it was supposed to print. I had a misplaced carat which eliminated a paragraph:

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"Would the exemption…extend to employers with religiously grounded objections to blood transfusions (Jehovah's Witnesses); antidepressants (Scientologists); medications derived from pigs, including anesthesia, intravenous fluids, and pills coated with gelatin (certain Muslims, Jews, and Hindus); and vaccinations[?]".

I have a solution. Let people chose the medical treatments they want, and pay for it themselves..

How rad is that?

[Moonman62]

Today’s decision doesn’t change anything. Ginsburg’s apocalyptic visions would have already come true already.

[nikos1121]

Her arguments are really very plausible, sensible and convincing IF, and ONLY IF you consider pregnancy to be a disease and abortion the remedy.

Then she correlates this with certain religious groups that are against the use of bovine substitutes or blood transfusions.

In other words, and this is really way out there considering this lady is supposedly very smart, she’s saying that if I’m a Jehovah’s Witness, and own a business then I shouldn’t have to provide medical insurance for employees needing a blood transfusion?

Can someone please explain to me how the two are similar?

[RightGeek]

Employers are entitled to not offer healthcare benefits at all, so they’re certainly entitled to place any restrictions or limits upon what they are or are not willing to offer, regardless of motivation. Employers can decline to offer it, just as a prospective employee is entitled to decline an offer of employment, should such restrictions or limitations be problematic for them, due to their own religious beliefs or motivations. It’s exchanging labor for compensation. Compensation can take many forms.

You should be on the Court, but they long ago left common sense behind.

[Buckeye McFrog]

>"It bears note in this regard that the cost of an IUD is nearly equivalent to a month’s full-time pay for workers earning the minimum wage."

Any more doubts that if you add 1 or 2 more of her this is gonna become the Social Justice Court?

[nikos1121]

And if we have a republican congress then the 50 vote majority rules now with regard to judicial appointments. No?

[Blue Collar Christian]

“How can the Founders believe that they were securing Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness for our unborn future if they were also writing abortion into the Constitution?”

The pro kill your baby folks believe they know for certain the unborn they choose to kill would have chosen death themselves rather than to be born into the care of those killing them pre-birth. Kind of a self criticism the left imposes on themselves as the promiscuous subjects of the realm.