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 ...
WASHINGTON-- The Supreme Court seems 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. The court's conservative justices sounded supportive Wednesday of the groups' compl...
RELATED:Supreme Court to hear another birth control case But their prospects became bleaker in February with the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. That’s not just because Scalia was a staunch Catholic who might have sympathized with their plight. It’s because of what happened when the plaintiff...
The two companies in the case, Hobby Lobby (a craft store based in Oklahoma) and Conestoga Wood (they make cabinets), are both owned by Christian families. They argued that since their religion prohibits birth control, the birth-control mandate violates their constitutionally protected rights. ...
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]...
In this June 30, 2014 file photo, demonstrators react to hearing the Supreme Court's decision on the Hobby Lobby birth control case outside the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court rid itself Monday, May 16, 2016, of a knotty dispute between faith-based groups and the Obama admin...
The request came after the justices already heard oral argument in theZubikcase, suggesting the court was having trouble resolving the dispute with the information it already had or that it was seeking to avoid a 4-4 tie that would leave the country divided. The brief order seemed to propose...
Supreme Court to Rule on Birth Control Mandate ; Battle Pits Advocates of Religious Freedom vs. Proponents of Reproductive RightsRichard Wolfrichardjwolf Usa Today