Supreme Court Looks Divided on Birth Control CaseThe Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday on a major challengeto Obamacare's birth control...King, Robert
“The Supreme Court didn’t legalize birth control use among married couples until 1965, and among non-married people until 1972. So there has always been inequality in terms of who had access and who didn’t,” Thimmesch tells Refinery29. “For low-income young people, young people of ...
The US Supreme Court said Tuesday it will take up a case involving a firm seeking to limit the availability of birth control to female employees enrolled in a company health plan on religious grounds. The court's nine justices announced they would hear arguments soon in the case between the ...
But the plaintiffs are asking the Supreme Court to agree that judges can't make that call. “If a religious adherent sincerely believes that taking a particular action would make him complicit in the sin of another, then courts must defer to that belief,” the plaintiffs wrote in their bri...
Wednesday was the sixth anniversary ofPresident Barack Obama's health care overhaul; the case in front of the justices was the law's fourth Supreme Court appearance in five years. The issue this time is the arrangement the administration devised to make sure that religiously oriented groups do ...
RELATED:Surprise signal from Supreme Court on birth control On Tuesday, the government and the plaintiffs inZubik v. Burwelleachcomplied with the unusualrequestfrom the Supreme Court for a new round of briefs on "whether contraceptive coverage could be provided to petitioners’ employees, through pe...
The case here only pertains to a couple kinds of birth control — like IUDs and the morning-after pill — that Hobby Lobby says are essentially abortion, since they could disrupt a fertilized egg. (For the record: Science says that’s not how an IUD works). And, this is just the ...
The Supreme Court will weigh in on contraceptive coverage under the nation's health care law this term, agreeing to hear a case involving the Obamacare rule requiring large companies to help pay for their employees' birth control. The high court will review whether the Trump administration was ...
In the 1977 case of Carey v. Population Services International, 431 U.S. 678, 97 S. Ct. 2010, 52 L. Ed. 2d 675, the Supreme Court continued to expand constitutional protections in the area of birth control. The Court imposed a strict standard of review for a New York law that it ...
Birth Control Case Hinges on Swing; WASHINGTON -- the Supreme Court Appears Deeply Divided over the Arrangement Devised by the Obama Administration to Spare Faith-Based Groups from Having to Pay for Birth Control for Women Covered under Their Health Plans. [Derived Headline]...