The full statement appears below along with tweets from reporters covering it:Posted on 11/26/2013 2:53:42 PM PST by NYer
The Obama administration says it is confident it will prevail in its bid to force Hobby Lobby and other religious businesses and groups to obey the HHS mandate that compels them to pay for birth control and abortion-causing drugs.
Responding to today’s news that the Supreme Court will take Hobby Lobby’s case to overturn the HHS mandate, the Obama administration released a statement saying, “We believe this requirement is lawful…and are confident the Supreme Court will agree.”
The full statement appears below along with tweets from reporters covering it:
The health care law puts women and families in control of their health care by covering vital preventive care, like cancer screenings and birth control, free of charge. Earlier this year, the Obama Administration asked the Supreme Court to consider a legal challenge to the health care law’s requirement that for-profit corporations include birth control coverage in insurance available to their employees. We believe this requirement is lawful and essential to women’s health and are confident the Supreme Court will agree.
We do not comment on specifics of a case pending before the Court. As a general matter, our policy is designed to ensure that health care decisions are made between a woman and her doctor. The President believes that no one, including the government or for-profit corporations, should be able to dictate those decisions to women. The Administration has already acted to ensure no church or similar religious institution will be forced to provide contraception coverage and has made a commonsense accommodation for non-profit religious organizations that object to contraception on religious grounds. These steps protect both women’s health and religious beliefs, and seek to ensure that women and families–not their bosses or corporate CEOs–can make personal health decisions based on their needs and their budgets.
Carney: POTUS believes that no one, including the government or for-profit corporations, should be able to dictate those decisions to women.
— Brian Hughes (@BrianHughesDC) November 26, 2013
WH on #SCOTUS contraception-mandate challenge: “We believe this requirement is lawful and essential to women’s health.” — Brian Hughes (@BrianHughesDC) November 26, 2013
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party and Planned Parenthood sent out tweets supporting the mandate.
RT if you agree: Birth control is basic health care for millions of women—employers shouldn’t get to take that away. #handsoffmyBC
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) November 26, 2013
Retweet if you agree. #StandWithWomen pic.twitter.com/SPVIdHVgoY
— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) November 26, 2013
To women that don’t understand how it works....birth control is free....all you have to do is keep your feet down and your pants up!!! Simple as that.
Geaux Hobby Lobby!!
Ping for later
Hey, Roberts! Tell him where he can stick it. We all know you’re gay already. Tell him we will post HIS gay photos if he tries to embarrass you!
It's a fun place to shop for the holidays.......and you can stick it to Obama at the same time, hah!
Support this gutsy, principled family....WE ARE HOBBY LOBBY! THEY ARE US!
Leni
Between Carney & his wife ( I think he is married to Campbell Brown), they don’t have the combined IQ of a doorknob.
Hobby Lobby & other employers are not telling women that they cannot have any birth control.
They are saying that THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE TO PAY FOR IT.
Apparently Carney is too stupid to understand the difference.
Let the women buy it on their own. It is about $18 a month & is basically now across the counter medicine.
What’s next? Telling employers they must pay for condoms, also?
Obama never seems to find a subject he doesn’t overreach on.
I am SOOOO tired of that man in the Spite House.
“”The President believes that no one, including the government or for-profit corporations, should be able to dictate those decisions to women.””
Then what in the devil are we doing with this abomination called obamacare?
Good little communists. Both Obama and Jarrett are commies. Valerie’s father( Vernon) owned the two communist papers in Chicago.
“”I think he is married to Campbell Brown””
Not much difference - Claire Shipman....ABC, I think.
Little barry bastard boy-king owns the pirate John Roberts. Roberts has no character from which to draw strength to do right things. He is crap.
It goes without saying. They own the judiciary. Thanks in a large part to the efforts of John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
It looks like they have sent another threat to Roberts.
The Regime apparently has more on Roberts!
Leni
If one believes this BOWH —and if they do “win” will it prove they were right all along— or will it only prove they succeeded in blackmailing the supreme Court again—(as they did when Rogers said ObamaCare might be Constitutional.)My fantasy is one day I will wake up to the headlines and GOOD NEWS that Everything done by BO after he raised his hand to take an afirmmation ( or Oath to the God he never knew) to present had been NULLIFIED by an American President and an America Congress acting under OUR US Constitution. Unlike the “progressives” or the queers or the Psychiatrists— I know the distinction between fantasy and reality.
“requirement” “force” “penalty” “comply” etc...
These are the words of tyranny.
Wouldn’t it be simpler to declare that Christians may not open businesses in the US?
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