court temporarily blocked a contraceptive mandate for wheaton college, a religiously affiliated non-profit school and that drew a furious from the three women thane court. it doesn t seem to make sense but perhaps consistency is the hob goblin. it was the complete reversal of what they ruled. it is really concerning that any woman would lose access to birth control. we decided at planned parenthood because of the confusion, created by these decisions, we have just launched a new ability for women to text us at 69866. text birth control if they have any questions about how to access birth control coverage because a lot of women are calling us wondering what in the world this all means. justice sotomayor wrote in a
political company reporting how religious groups are hoping to leverage their success with the lawsuit by filing more lawsuits asking the exemption for contraceptive coverage apply to them, as well. the national journal analyzed the decision saying it gets to the heart of president obama s legacy. he writes the decision of both on hobby lobby and the impasse existing between the president and congress, quote, reaffirms the gop s identity and champion of the forces most resistant to the profound demographic reshaping american life and the voice of those who most welcome these changes. and so what what he s getting at here, if you get away from the specifics of the ruling and sort of the more granular aspects, if you look in the big picture, this is a political fight the obama administration knew it was getting into when it instituted the contraceptive
he would have wanted to write, it would have been a dissent. the only way to get the chief justice to join the decision and make it a 5-4 majority was to rule on the narrowest grounds, and those are these. can a regulation issued by the department of health and human services, the contraceptive mandate, trump a statute written by congress 20 years ago which prevenlts such a regulation. answer, no. did you hear me mention religion? no, it s about it trumping a statute. do we think we ll get there? get where? including religion? yes, because i think of the 60 cases pending throughout the united states of america, all kinds of groups, including the university of notre dame and the archdiocese of new york. all those groups will now prevail as a result of this. you add up all those groups together, you have a huge number of americans who will not be getting health insurance that covers abortion, contrary to
covers contraceptive services among which is abortion, so because they couldn t get a majority vote in the congress, they issued this rule on their own, forgetting issuing a rule like that violated another statute that congress wrote 20 years ago and that s what the supreme court smacked them down for yesterday. see, a lot of people just don t get the historics of it and that is the fact that this contraceptive mandate was an invention when they were running for reelection and the war on women. yes, because the president it was never passed by congress. correct, correct. yet the president promised his base that it would become part of a law of the land and as you said in your introduction or intimated in your introduction of this segment, he loves so much to rule by pen and phone rather than by legislation and acted by congress. this was the way he was able to rule by pen and phone of the call up kathleen sebelius. and then there was the case that involved seiu, some women
just as anthony kennedy may have called it a ticket for one day only, but just a day after the supreme court ruled in favor of for profit companies in its hobby lobby case, signs of a broader impact are everywhere, starting with court itself. today the supreme court decided its ruling on religious rights to include business that s object to covering all methods of government improved contraception by leaving in place a series of lower court rulings. the cases were awaiting action pending results of the hobby lobby case which center on two emergency could tra september tifs. the court has indicated that the ruling applies broadly to the entire contraceptive mandate in the affordable care act. josh ernest said the administration is finding a way to mitigate a gap in women s health care coverage, either with congress or its own. we are suggesting that