Posted on 06/30/2014 4:48:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Hillary Clinton on Monday condemned the Supreme Court decision that found some family-owned corporations cannot be forced to pay for the birth control coverage of their employees, required by the healthcare law.
"I think that there should be a real outcry against the decision," Clinton said at the Aspen Ideas Festival. "And there will be many more now — look, many more companies will claim religious beliefs and some will be sincere but others maybe not. And we are going to see this one insurable service cut out for many, many women."
The 5-4 ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, applies to so-called closely held companies rather than publicly traded companies.
The owners of Hobby Lobby, a retail crafts chain, had challenged the mandate, saying it required them to cover some forms of contraception such as the morning after pill, which they equated with abortion and opposed on religious grounds.
Clinton, a likely Democratic candidate for president in 2016, said the ruling is a slippery slope, citing portions of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dissent.
"You know there are companies that may be closely held by employers who don't believe in blood transfusions," she said. "That is a religious belief that certain people hold. So does that mean if you have need for a blood transfusion, your insurance policy does not have to cover it? So this is a really bad slippery slope."
The majority addressed the issue, finding no evidence that the ruling would lead to a flood of religious objections. The majority also said the decision "is concerned solely with the contraceptive mandate."
The decision hinged on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, a law signed by former President Bill Clinton. The law prohibits the government from burdening a person's religious freedom, unless it is to further a compelling government interest and is the least restrictive method available.
"This is certainly a use that no one foresaw and Justice Ginsberg makes that very clear,” Clinton said.
The court assumed providing contraception coverage is a compelling government interest but found there were other, less-restrictive ways to provide coverage. For example, the government could pay for coverage itself, the court found.
"So does this mean that whoever wrote that concurrence is in favor of a single payer system for contraception?” Clinton asked. “I think there are a lot of interesting questions.”
Clinton discussed the issue of abortion, calling it a “hard choice.”
“We’re always going to argue about abortion,” she said. “It’s a hard choice and it’s controversial, and that’s why I’m pro-choice, because I want people to be able to make their own choices.”
She's a liar.
Any woman can choose whether or not to take the morning after pill; they are not illegal.
However, dictators like Hillary are anti choice in their jihad to FORCE companies to cover abortion.
OMG, a “slippery slope” towards more individual religious freedom! How will the republic survive this slap in the face of collectivist government control? People like Hill make me sick.
FUHRC and all your spawn too.
Only a lib would think that pre-natal infanticide is “health care”.
ROFL. It's bizarre -- and downright stupid -- to hear Hillary Clinton complain about a U.S. Supreme Court decision that was based on a Federal statute that her own retarded husband signed into law.
Now liberals believe in slippery slopes?
Clinton: Hobby Lobby ruling a ‘slippery slope’
Ya mean, like “gay rights”?
Guess we’re stuck with the law her husband signed into law then
Wasn’t it President Reagan who said something to the effect, ‘I find it interesting that the people who favor abortion have been born.’
pro choice means nothing. if it’s’for’people’making their own choice.
apply it to homicide. people can choose to murder or not murder. that’s the pro-choice position.
drunk driving. the pro-choice position is that they want people to be able to choose to drive druk or nmot drive drunk.
pro-choice is idiotic trying to pass itself off as enlightened and shrewd.
So poor, poor Hillary is in Aspen. Hanging out with the Swells.
Go AWAY, Hillary. You’re BORING.
OH! So a leftist is worried about a slippery slope.
It’s a dead broke “slippery slope” right Monica? Oops! I mean Hillary.
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ROFL. It’s bizarre — and downright stupid — to hear Hillary Clinton complain about a U.S. Supreme Court decision that was based on a Federal statute that her own retarded husband signed into law. “
Didn’t captain splooge also sign don’t ask don’t tell?
Complete projection on the part of the beast. Liars condemn others of lying. There is NO evidence that's the case with Hobby Lobby.
What a bitch!
“Slippery Slope” And obama/hillary care is a frikken 1000-foot cliff.
Shove it, Hillary, you piece of garbage. For once, the Supremes got it right.
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