Yet Another Court Rules Against Religious Whore Pill Haters
LatestHere’s an increasingly familiar story: a group of business-owning grown ups who believe things about birth control that are scientifically wrong has lost a lawsuit against the federal government. Related: How much time and money are anti-birth control zealots wasting filing lawsuits they keep losing? I’d be pretty bored with all this if I were a judge.
The lawsuit was filed by a Michigan Catholic family that just so happens to run a for-profit company called Autocam. Autocam doesn’t meet any of the qualifications necessary to exempt it from Obamacare’s contraception mandate, which requires companies of a certain size that are not religiously affiliated to provide copay-free birth control to female employees who wish to use it. Because the Catholic Church believes that Pope magic is more powerful and right than Science, the Kennedys subscribe to the demonstrably erroneous belief that hormonal contraception is an abortifacient and therefore egregiously wrong, and they claim that a law forcing a company they control to allow female employees to choose to use their insurance benefits to use contraception is a big time religious rights violation.