Posted on 07/04/2014 9:59:21 PM PDT by topher
WASHINGTON, D.C. – ObamaCare's controversial HHS mandate suffered another setback on Thursday, as the Supreme Court voted to allow a Christian college to opt out of signing a form that would result in their insurance company providing employees with “free” birth control and abortifacients. Instead, says the high court, the coverage will kick in after they inform HHS of their religious objection.
The 6-3 decision exempts Wheaton College from filing Form 700, which certifies its religious objection to providing abortifacient drugs to women, until the case has been fully adjudicated. In all likelihood, the matter will ultimately be decided by the justices themselves.
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It is an important decision because basically if they objected to it (Wheaton College, Little Sisters of the Poor) and signed it, the the TAXPAYERS would pay for abortion, etc.
SCOTUS has also kicked Obama in the groin along with many other liberals, and Planned Parenthood
Excuse my ignorance, but didn’t the Court break for Summer recess on June 30?
Maybe SCOTUS decided to CELEBRATE the 4th of July by gutting abortion aspects of Obamacare...
You are quite correct. It must have been something special to have gotten them to give this Judgement...
This case is:
Wheaton College v. Sylvia Burwell (Secretary of Health and Human Services).
Poster BuckeyeTexas might be able to explain this...
Wait a sec, didn’t that pro-life democrat who voted for Obamacare assure us there will be no abortion funding in it????
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Obamacare has spawned an egregious mentality of immoral entitlements.
You must mean the Nebraska Corn Hole Hustler, Benedict Nelson ... The national jackass with the pompous hairdo ... The slimy smiling little maggot that was delivered into this world by a garbage truck ... The scum wad that seeped out of a septic tank ... Yeah “pro-life” like the black plague.
SCOTUS granted Wheaton’s request for an emergency injunction. That’s really all there is to it.
Wheaton College’s case is currently in the U.S. District Court for the Norther District of Illinois, which is in the 7th Circuit. Justice Kagan is over the 6th and 7th Circuits. So all requests for such things must be submitted to her according to SCOTUS rules. She can grant a request, deny a request, or refer it to the whole court. Since it is a significant case, she chose to refer the request to the whole Court for a vote.
If she had denied the request, Wheaton would have been entitled to submit the request to a justice of their choice. That justice would likely have been one of the five in the majority on Hobby Lobby. That justice has the same options as Kagan.
SCOTUS felt this request constituted a legitimate emergency. In this case, Wheaton had a deadline to meet to submit/sign that form. The Circuit Courts are divided over whether or not to grant such injunctions for religious non-profits who object to the form. So SCOTUS granted the injunction pending completion of the appeals process.
(I’m goofy tired. I hope that made sense.)
The way I understood what Alito said is that the coverage is in the government’s lap now. Wheaton did not want to sign a form that authorized their insurance company to provide abortions. Instead, they were allowed simply to notify the government that they weren’t providing abortion coverage. How the government handles it is their business. I see a huge difference between the two.
As one medical doctor I read yesterday wrote, the day after pill can be picked up for 33 bucks.
“Excuse my ignorance, but didn’t the Court break for Summer recess on June 30?”
Teleconferencing and texting.... the new wave in judicial communication! ;-)
“Wait a sec, didn’t that pro-life democrat who voted for Obamacare assure us there will be no abortion funding in it????”
Yes you are correct. The gang of 10 ( I think was) is what pushed Obamacare over the top. Obama said he would do an EO about no abortion funding (or something) so he get their DEMOCRAT votes. It was supposed to save their faces so they could vote for Obamacare since they were supposed to be Pro Life.......we all know how that ended, epic fail!
The organization which can lay claim to being the key to the passage of ObamaCare is National Right to Life.
Without NRTLs involvement we would not have ObamaCare, or Federally funded abortions.
Ironic isn’t it?
NRTL is stupid, or evil.
The question I have is can women seeking such drugs from the college be fired?
There are no “pro life Democrats”, the term is a oxymoron period
There are no “pro life Democrats”, the term is a oxymoron period
Chris Matthews and most "reporters" in the MSM better hope their obamaCare coverage is sufficient to treat the concussion they likely suffered when this happened.
6-3 isn’t as good as 9-0.
But it’s better tan 5-4.
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