A federal judge booted Notre Dame’s lawsuit complaining about the birth control benefit out of court — on a technicality. Judge Robert Miller ruled that the lawsuit wasn’t ripe, and that the lawsuit might never be ripe. (In order for a lawsuit to proceed in court, it must be ripe — in other words, shit …
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Birth Control Benefit Nay-Sayers Take Up Yarns in Support of Hobby Lobby
Hobby Lobby is risking paying upwards of one million dollars in fines per day just so they can thumb their nose at the birth control benefit provision in the ACA which requires employers to offer contraception access without copay to their employees. On Saturday, thousands of yarn lovers rallied at Hobby Lobby storesand demanded that righteous …
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Texas’s Really Stupid War Against Planned Parenthood and Women
Texas is the first state that has successfully excluded Planned Parenthood from providing services to women, but the manner they went about it is — how do you say — really stupid. After attempting (and failing) to exclude Planned Parenthood from its federally-funded Women’s Health Program, Texas decided to create a state-funded Women’s Health Program …
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House GOP Blocks Violence Against Women Act
Continuing their fine tradition of doing fuck-all to help the American people, the House GOP blocked the Violence Against Women Act. Why? Because they’re assholes. That’s the long and short of it. If you want to read a good post detailing the assholery, asiangrrlMN’s post “Native American Women Matter, Too. Pass the Damn #VAWA, House …
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Hobby Lobby To Defy Birth Control Benefit Mandate and Hopefully Go Bankrupt [updated]
Yesterday, I told you that Justice Sotomayor rejected Hobby Lobby’s emergency appeal, thus requiring Hobby Lobby to suck it up, provide contraception access without copay to its employees, and wait for its case to proceed in district court. Welp, Hobby Lobby is none too pleased with that decision, and has chosen to throw a million-dollar …
Justice Sotomayor Rejects Hobby Lobby’s Emergency Birth Control Benefit Appeal
Yesterday in an in-chambers opinion, Justice Sotomayor declined Hobby Lobby’s request for an emergency application for injunction pending appeal of the Tenth Circuit’s decision denying Hobby Lobby’s request for preliminary injunction. That was a legal mouthful, so here’s what it means: Hobby Lobby wanted to block application of the birth control benefit because of Jesus. …
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National Review Author Blames Shooting on Sandy Hook Elementary School Being Too Girly
Antifeminist asshole and verbal diarrhea sufferer Charlotte Allen blames the Newtown shooting on the “feminized setting” at Sandy Hook Elementary, which encouraged “helpless passivity” and stomped on the testosterone-infused testicles of what could have been a normal more masculine elementary school. It was probably all those super-gay potpourri sachets that teachers stashed in students’ cubby …