Posted on 07/01/2014 2:41:30 PM PDT by NYer
Hillary Clinton is the clear frontrunner at this very early point in the 2016 presidential race and, after the midterm elections, the pro-life movement will undoubtedly bring up a laundry list of her pro-abortion actions and comments. Here is something that will undoubtedly be added to the list.
The potential presidential candidate proves in her response to the Supreme Court’s decision protecting Hobby Lobby from the Obama HHS mandate that she really has no fundamental understanding of what the case was about.
John McCormack of the Weekly Standard breaks it down:
On Monday evening, Hillary Clinton said that she found the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Hobby Lobby case “deeply disturbing.” Clinton added that “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.”
Contrary to Clinton’s assertion Hobby Lobby’s owner “doesn’t think [women] should be using contraception,” the family-owned business covers the entire cost of 16 out of 20 FDA-approved contraceptives under its insurance plan. The company’s owners simply objected to covering pills or devices that may cause the death of a human embryo.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the government’s contraception mandate as applied to closely held corporations was a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which was signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1993. The Court held that the government could provide coverage for contraceptives and abortifacients without forcing Americans, like the Christian family that owns Hobby Lobby, to violate their sincerely held religious beliefs.
Following the Court’s ruling, Hobby Lobby, like almost all employers in the United States, will continue to cover contraception under its insurance plan. The federal government will also continue to spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year providing contraception to poor and low-income women through Medicaid and the Title X program.
Although Clinton, who commands a $225,000 speaking fee, claimed that contraception is “pretty expensive,” a month’s supply of birth control pills may be purchased at Target for as little as $9 per month.
Right to Life of Michigan also noticed Clinton’s gaffe and said she embarrassed herself in her reaction.
“Former U.S. Senator and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently shared her thoughts on the Supreme Court decision in Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby and said a number of things which are completely untrue. It’s almost as if she has no clue what the case was about,” the pro-life group commented.
“This statement is wrong in so many ways. Hobby Lobby’s health plan provides 16 different types of contraceptives to employees. 16 different types. Hobby Lobby and their owners are not opposed to contraception and don’t attempt to prevent their employees from using contraceptives. Hobby Lobby filed suit because their owners felt it violated their consciences to provide 4 other types of birth control which they believe can be abortifacient,” RLM added. “If Clinton was really in favor of people being able to make their own choices, then shouldn’t she support the owners of Hobby Lobby and their choices regarding which forms of birth control they decide to cover?”
Fallen off the wagon
I don't think so. The Clinton-signed law was upheld.
I’d love to see her reaction when she sees a picture like the one you posted. You KNOW she goes ballistic. Hopefully, now that the media isn’t the only ones who have cameras we’ll see some of her meltdowns and screw ups.
Hillary Clinton Shows She Has No Idea...period.
Demonicrats like Hellary and other leftist lie like normal people breath. Whatever Demonicrats say should be treated as false, and probably as something that gives aid and comfort to the enemy. As Ann Coulter warned about liberals, “their evil is incalculable.”
Listening to Clinton, Pelosi, and the rest of these clowns you would think that corporate boards will be stationing goon squads in the bedroom of every employee and any ‘bc’ will be confiscated.
They’re such idiots they deserve to be mocked and scorned.
The "Ready for Hillary" crowd doesn't care, as long as she says what they want to hear.
I seriously think we'll need to nominate a Conservative woman to counter the Dems "war on women" talking points and win in 2016.
When you're dirt poor like Hillary even $8 a month for birth control pills can seem expensive.
It is her tainted Marxist thinking on this issue that reveals she is no friend of the Constitution. In fact, she is a threat to the Constitution. Her knowledge of the Constitution she learned in her days at Yale Law School will be used to destroy it as the Founders intended. If we allow her the White House, the will continue its destruction that Zer0 has started.
Hillary: So long, it’s been good to know yuh, and I got to be driftin’ along.
You apparently haven’t heard that Hillary is the most brilliant woman on the planet. WE are all very fortunate that she escaped the gunfire as she landed in Bosnia. And that the World Trade Center didn’t fall on her daughter.
I think that photo was taken from the world-famous children’s classic, “Chelsea Has Two Mommies”.
that she is
She sounds like she’s close to being qualifed to hide her own Easter eggs.
Yeah I saw her on some interview she didn’t look good
But under this ruling shouldn’t a closely held corporation owned by Catholics have the right to refuse to cover any birth control at all on religous grounds?
I still don’t get why insurance would have to cover the cost of a pack of Trojans.
How much is a “morning after pill” anyway that Hillary and the Fluker chick are screaming about insurance paying for it?
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