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Supreme Court women lash out at birth control decision
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/04/politics/supreme-court-women/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 ^

Posted on 07/04/2014 8:44:43 PM PDT by chessplayer

Their unusually strident dissent written by Sotomayor said the Wheaton injunction threatened the credibility of the Hobby Lobby decision.

"Those who are bound by our decisions usually believe they can take us at our word," Sotomayor wrote. "Not so today."

The point of the dissent? "It is not the business of this court to ensnare itself in the government's ministerial handling of its affairs in the manner it does here," Sotomayor wrote.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; hobbylobby; judicialactivism; sotomayor
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To: chessplayer
Just wondering . . .

Does Obamacare cover fertility treatments for women who want to give birth but are unable to conceive naturally?

If not, where is the outrage from the feminists?

The choice to have a child just as much a woman's right as the choice to abort one.

21 posted on 07/04/2014 9:31:20 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: chessplayer; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ..

> “It is not the business of this court to ensnare itself in the government’s ministerial handling of its affairs in the manner it does here,” Sotomayor wrote.

Yeah, I threw up a little too.


22 posted on 07/04/2014 10:06:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Diversity is affirmative action by another name.

Just like they changed “liberal “ to “progressive” because liberal became a dirty word, so too with affirmative action and diversity.

Soon they’ll need to come up with new euphemisms since the left has managed, as expected, to defile their latest monikers.


23 posted on 07/04/2014 10:07:26 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Jess Kitting

In California same sex couples are entitled to fertility treatments - this is not a joke.


24 posted on 07/04/2014 10:11:06 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: SunkenCiv
“It is not the business of this court to ensnare itself in the government’s ministerial handling of its affairs in the manner it does here,” Sotomayor wrote.

A meaningless statement from a lightweight.
25 posted on 07/04/2014 11:08:44 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: doc1019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chase


26 posted on 07/05/2014 5:22:15 AM PDT by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: chessplayer

But...but...but..it’s “settled law”!


27 posted on 07/05/2014 8:08:37 AM PDT by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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