The 5-4 decision by the court's conservative majority, over the vehement objections of liberal justices, dealt a blow to President Obama's health care law two years after the court came within one vote of striking it down as unconstitutional.
But the ruling was not as sweeping as it could have been for several reasons. It's based on a religious freedom law passed by Congress rather than a broad constitutional right to exercise religion. It applies only to closely-held corporations such as the family-owned companies that challenged the law.
And it leaves open the possibility that women working for those companies can get the disputed contraceptives -- morning-after pills and IUDs -- from another source, such as the government or private insurers.
MORE: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/06/30/supreme-court-hobby-lobby-religion-contraception-obama/11473189/
See also...
Secular Coalition Condemns SCOTUS Decision to Strike Down Contraceptive Coverage Requirement
http://secular.org/news/secular-coalition-condemns-scotus-decision-strike-down-contraceptive-coverage-requirement
Nonbelievers Denounce Supreme Court Decision Allowing Special Religious Privileges for Hobby Lobby
http://americanhumanist.org/news/details/2014-06-nonbelievers-denounce-supreme-court-decision-allowin
Double-Edged Disaster
https://www.au.org/content/double-edged-disaster
Earlier...
Mother Jones Probe Finds That Hobby Lobby Invests Millions in Makers of Birth-Control Pills and Abortifacients
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/04/02/mother-jones-probe-finds-that-hobby-lobby-invests-millions-in-makers-of-birth-control-pills-and-abortifacients/
Hobby Lobby Invested In Numerous Abortion And Contraception Products While Claiming Religious Objection
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2014/04/01/hobby-lobby-401k-discovered-to-be-investor-in-numerous-abortion-and-contraception-products-while-claiming-religious-objection/
Oklahoma school district OKs 'Bible curriculum' created by Hobby Lobby president
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/16/oklahoma-school-district-oks-bible-curriculum-created-by-hobby-lobby-president/
Untruth In Advertising: Latest Hobby Lobby Scandal Reveals Pattern of Deception
https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/untruth-in-advertising-latest-hobby-lobby-scandal-reveals-pattern-of
