Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby, a case in which a for-profit corporation is using religious beliefs to challenge the provision in the Affordable Care Act that requires heath insurers to offer contraceptive care. Legal analysts have pointed out that Hobby Lobby itself can't hold religious beliefs as a corporate entity, and that it simply reflects the views of its owners. Others note that if the law's provision were to be struck down, it would open the law (and potentially other laws) to challenges based on religious "beliefs" -- bogus or not -- that could impact employees' civil rights.
The far right won't stop probing the Affordable Care Act in an attempt to sabotage it and to return to the health insurance system that was gamed to maximize the insurance companies' profits and not to provide cost coverage to Americans in need of health care.
BONUS: Walter Dellinger has an op/ed on the case, making the argument (as in Griswold) that there's an issue of equality of access to effective family planning techniques involved, concluding:
Selectively denying insurance coverage for contraceptive methods an employer considers sinful effectively makes the employer a party to a woman’s medical consultations. An understanding of the importance of access to the full range of contraception options should lead the court to reject claims of religious entitlement that so greatly burden the interests of others.
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