The WHAT department?
“when Christians form a corporation they give up the right to freely exercise their religion”
Sounds totally like something the Founders would say!
/sarc
Actually sounds more like Mussolini
There was a time I’d have had faith in SCOTUS for a rational decision. That thinking went out the window a few years ago.
In exactly the same way, violently attacking white people out of hatred is not a hate crime.
Dick Holder makes it up as he goes along.
Preventing a ball of about 150 undifferentiated cells from implanting really is not the same as abortion. That tiny ball of cells, or blastocyst, has no organs, no brain tissue that would make it aware or able to feel. Most blastocysts do not implant anyway.
On the other hand, abortion is the deliberate killing of an embryo that is perfectly capable of feeling the pain of being killed. The brain begins to form in week 3 when the neural tube forms; by 5 weeks, it has taken on its role as master controller of the body and processes information about its environment.
The court was actually using science to make its decision.
No, it’s murder.
No, it is murder.
pathetic (and Satanic) ...super pathetic....
(and we’re paying for this rot?)
That’s not a rational approach towards conception. Fertilization of an ovum is a far more reasonable line between “cell” and “developing human”.
By the time implantation would occur, a unique composite genome has already formed, and many cellular divisions have already taken place, effectively creating a new and unique organism. Quite frankly, that’s life.
That’s life far more complex than you’re going to see in any prokaryote. Implantation is merely a a phase of that organism’s life, one it may complete or not (such as gestation, infancy, childhood, college, etc.).
Any dividing line drawn significantly after conception is really unsupportable. Some dishonest or easily influenced individuals may point to the high rates of human miscarriage, and the significant number pregnancies that end without implantation successfully taking place, but that’s a truly illogical argument with no comparable basis in fact - the fact that a child may suffer from SIDS, or that historically the MAJORITY of children born never reached adulthood, does not imply that a unique individual person did not exist prior to leaving infancy or childhood.
The rate of miscarriage or failure to implant is utterly immaterial to the argument of whether or not life has begun. Just as the historical childhood mortality rate is immaterial to the argument of whether or not a child is a human being.
If Hobby Lobby loses then businesses won't be able to opt out of whatever nonsense is foisted upon them by the government.
If Hobby Lobby wins then corporations will use this decision to justify bad behavior that has absolutely nothing to do with the decision, but that will be technically allowed based on strained readings of the decision.
The 14th Amendment has been invoked far more times to grant corporations the rights normally only allotted to citizens than by blacks to get the same rights as whites.
Even if they are correct as they define the words, that is irrelevant. As the owners of Hobby Lobby define the words, an embryo is a person, the drugs they are ordered to pay for kill that person, and the owners of Hobby Lobby have a religious objection to killing people. Whether or not an action violates Obama's allegedly Christian values is irrelevant to whether government compelling a real Christian to perform the same action is a violation of the First Amendment Free Exercise Clause.
Next from the DOJ: Murder is nothing more than a late term abortion.
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I wonder how many anti-abortion Freepers are using the abortion causing drugs in question.
On that point, they are correct. It is not abortion. It is murder. It in infanticide. And on Judgment Day, those who practice it will be judged accordingly.
Sebelius is an idiot, if your religion believes life begins at conception, implantation is irrelevant... Hobby Lobby argument is religious freedom, obviously Sebelius et al have no idea about what religious beliefs entail.
Interfering in any way with the natural progression of that life, began at conception is murder, period. That’s the religious argument, this counter argument from the DOJ is laughable.