Balkinization: The Augmented Contraception Coverage Regulations...
Marty Lederman | Balkanization (United States) As promised, the federal government today issued an an interim final rule in which it has augmented the secondary accommodation for nonprofit religious...
View ArticleLA Times: New Republican pitch to female voters: Over-the-counter birth...
Cathleen Decker | Los Angeles Times (United States) Elections have consequences, and those consequences are most acutely felt, it seems, in closely contested elections. In at least four hot races...
View ArticleNY Times: Supreme Court Allows Nationwide Health Care Subsidies
Adam Liptak | The New York Times (United States) WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that President Obama’s health care law allows the federal government to provide nationwide …Continue...
View ArticleBalkanization: Hobby Lobby’s Bitter Anniversary
Nelson Tebbe, Richard Schragger, and Micah Schwartzman | Balkanization (United States) A year ago today, the Supreme Court handed down Hobby Lobby. There, famously, the Court extended a religion...
View ArticleAP: 10th Circuit: New health law doesn’t infringe on religious freedom
Associated Press (United States) DENVER (AP) — The federal health care law doesn’t infringe on the religious freedom of faith-based nonprofit organizations that object to covering birth control in...
View ArticleBalkanization: Update on the contraception coverage regulations and litigation
Marty Lederman | Balkanization (United States) It’s been almost a year since my last series of posts on the fallout from Hobby Lobby–in particular, on the challenges by nonprofit organizations...
View ArticleNY Times: The Campaign of Deception Against Planned Parenthood
The Editorial Board | The New York Times (United States) A hidden-camera video released last week purported to show that Planned Parenthood illegally sells tissue from aborted fetuses. It shows...
View ArticlePost Bulletin: Colorado nuns appeal birth control ruling to Supreme Court
AP | Post Bulletin (United States) DENVER (AP) — A group of Colorado nuns said Thursday they will go to the U.S. Supreme Court to appeal a ruling that allows …Continue reading »
View ArticleBalkanization: First Government opposition brief in nonprofit cases...
Marty Lederman | Balkanization (United States) On Wednesday, the Solicitor General filed this brief in opposition to the two petitions for certiorari from the decision of the U.S. Court of …Continue...
View ArticleNY Times: Judge Allows Moral, Not Just Religious, Contraception Exemptions
ADAM LIPTAK | The New York Times (United States) WASHINGTON — Employers do not need to provide insurance coverage for contraception even if their objections are moral rather than religious, …Continue...
View ArticleSlate: A Woman’s Right to Know
Dahlia Lithwick | Slate (United States) The U.S. Supreme Court has long been signaling an almost infinite tolerance for claims that religious freedom and the freedom of speech—especially when...
View ArticleLA Times: With no reproductive rights, many Latin American women could be at...
The Times Editorial Board | Los Angeles Times (United States) Now that researchers have identified a tangible link between the Zika virus and fetal brain deformation, pregnant women and those …Continue...
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