Protest Hobby Lobby's Efforts to
Deny Women Contraceptive Coverage
Saturday, December 7, 2013 at 2 pm
at the Hobby Lobby Store
Ithaca, NY
Tompkins County Chapter
of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
Tompkins County NOW is continuing the campaign to raise awareness about Hobby Lobby's efforts to remove contraceptive coverage from the affordable care act (denying women contraceptive coverage).
We will be demonstrating again on Sat, Dec 7th at 2 pm. Hobby Lobby is next to where Kmart's used to be.
Our petition on move on has gathered over 300 signatures. Please help it grow. It is at http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/our-bodies-our-choice
The demonstration will be at
the Hobby
Lobby store
next to where K-mart used to be in Ithaca, NY
Saturday, December 7, 2013 at 2 pm
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. The Supreme Court will hear the case and it will 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.
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