Hobby Lobby fallout

Defenders of the Hobby Lobby decision pointed out the company only wanted an out for four types of birth control it thought were abortifacents. Incorrectly, but Alito’s ruling said that was irrelevant as long as they sincerely believed the methods caused abortion.
Unsurprisingly, despite Alito’s proclamation this ruling doesn’t apply to serious medical issues such as vaccination or blood transfusions, it does apply to other types of birth control. The court has ordered lower courts to review several cases in which Catholic-owned businesses want to opt out from providing any birth-control coverage. Government requests for review in similar cases (where lower courts ruled in favor of the company) got shot down.
As Echidne says, giving businesses more power to discriminate based on religion is bound to work badly for women, as all three Abrahamic religions have a strong anti-woman bias on the right.

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