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Obama Admin: We Will Win Our Bid to Force Hobby Lobby to Obey the HHS Mandate
Life News ^ | November 26, 2013 | Steven Ertelt

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



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: hhs; hobbylobby; obamacare; scotus
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To: 21twelve

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.


41 posted on 11/26/2013 3:42:21 PM PST by cajun-jack
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To: NYer

Geaux Hobby Lobby!!


42 posted on 11/26/2013 3:47:42 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: NYer

Ping for later


43 posted on 11/26/2013 3:56:03 PM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Iron Munro

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!


44 posted on 11/26/2013 3:56:39 PM PST by Missouri gal
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To: NYer; mickie; Chigirl 26; pax_et_bonum; I still care; sarasmom; hoosiermama; oswegodeee; ...
Git yerself over to Hobby Lobby for all yer Christmas stuff!

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

45 posted on 11/26/2013 3:57:25 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: NYer

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.


46 posted on 11/26/2013 4:02:47 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: NYer

“”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?


47 posted on 11/26/2013 4:03:22 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Cen-Tejas

Good little communists. Both Obama and Jarrett are commies. Valerie’s father( Vernon) owned the two communist papers in Chicago.


48 posted on 11/26/2013 4:05:05 PM PST by Lumper20
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To: ridesthemiles

“”I think he is married to Campbell Brown””

Not much difference - Claire Shipman....ABC, I think.


49 posted on 11/26/2013 4:08:20 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Ann Archy

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.


50 posted on 11/26/2013 5:03:46 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: NYer

It goes without saying. They own the judiciary. Thanks in a large part to the efforts of John McCain and Lindsey Graham.


51 posted on 11/26/2013 5:06:45 PM PST by sport
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To: Ann Archy

It looks like they have sent another threat to Roberts.


52 posted on 11/26/2013 6:01:37 PM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: MinuteGal
Obama Admin: We Will Win Our Bid to Force Hobby Lobby to Obey the HHS Mandate

The Regime apparently has more on Roberts!

53 posted on 11/26/2013 7:07:34 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: NYer

54 posted on 11/26/2013 8:11:36 PM PST by Gasshog (0bama: 146 rounds of Golf and counting... FORE!!!!!WARD!!! -___O)
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To: Bushbacker1
That's sure what it sounds like, doesn't it!

Leni

55 posted on 11/26/2013 8:14:25 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: NYer

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.


56 posted on 11/27/2013 5:54:28 AM PST by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: NYer

“requirement” “force” “penalty” “comply” etc...

These are the words of tyranny.


57 posted on 11/27/2013 5:55:46 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Argus; ColdOne; Biggirl

58 posted on 11/30/2013 11:52:39 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Without justice, what else is the state but a large band of robbers?" - St. Augustine of Hippo)
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To: NYer

Wouldn’t it be simpler to declare that Christians may not open businesses in the US?


59 posted on 11/30/2013 11:55:27 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, it's useless. E)
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