Executive Council Statement
Hobby Lobby: Yet Another Supreme Court Decision That Harms Women's Health and Threatens Worker Rights
… five male justices on the Supreme Court ruled that owners of certain for-profit corporations who have religious objections to contraception—objections their employees may not share—can withhold health insurance coverage for their employees’ birth … struggle for women’s health and threatens the Affordable Care Act’s goal of ensuring that all working families have access to cost-effective preventive health care. By allowing the owners of companies to pick and choose which provisions of the law they will follow, the Supreme Court’s ruling undermines workers’ rights and, …