Waging War on Women
Hobby Lobby shuts doors on employee birth control coverage
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to make her own decisions about her own body
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The Birth Control Mandate of the affordable care act is being challenged by a private company, Hobby Lobby. They just opened a store in Ithaca. Tompkins County NOW will be protesting Hobby Lobby's efforts to enforce their religious beliefs on their employees private lives on Monday Nov 11 at 3 PM out front of Hobby Lobby. The Hobby Lobby is located next to Staples in Ithaca.
Ithaca, NY— A branch of Hobby Lobby
recently opened its doors.
A group of concerned-citizens, including members of the Tompkins County
Chapter of the National Organization for Women, will demonstrate against Hobby
Lobby’s challenge to the birth control mandate of the Affordable Care Act. The
company refuses to abide by a portion of this law that requires it to offer
certain kinds of birth control to their employees. It claims that some of the mandated
coverage violates its religious freedom.
According to Lori Gardner, president of the local NOW chapter, “This is
a case where employers are trying to control the private life of their
employees. Corporations do not have the right to enforce their religious
doctrine on their employees and they do not have a right to control their
private lives.”
The U.S. Department of Justice has argued that if for-profit
corporations exempt themselves from requirements that are against their
religious beliefs, this, in effect, allows the company to impose its religious
beliefs on employees.
In July, 2013, a federal court granted the company a preliminary injunction against the mandate. The Obama administration appealed that ruling in September. Hobby Lobby filed a lawsuit in Supreme Court on October 21, 2013. If the Supreme Court takes up this case, it would likely be decided before the end of the Court’s term in June, 2014. The company has more than 500 stores in 41 states. It employs more than 13,000 full-time, health insurance-eligible employees.
The demonstration will be at
the Hobby Lobby store
next to Staples in Ithaca at
3 p.m. on Monday, November 11, 2013
the Hobby Lobby store
next to Staples in Ithaca at
3 p.m. on Monday, November 11, 2013
Sign a petition for a woman's right
to make her own decisions about her own body
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/our-bodies-our-choice?source=s.fwd&r_by=9473906
For more information about the demonstration,
please contact:
Karen Biesanz, Tompkins County
NOW
215 Watauga Ave.
Corning, NY 14830