Conservative critics have criticized Justice Sotomayor's decision to reject Hobby Lobby's request for an emergency injunction on the birth control benefit under the ACA. The question before her was: Are Hobby Lobby's rights so indisputably clear that an emergency injunction was required? She answered that question correctly: no.
As states pass their own laws allowing employers to discriminate in insurance benefits, federal courts must wrestle with how those laws interact with the federal contraception mandate.
Physical "rescues" were meant to harass clinics out of existence. The new "civil disobedience" call of anti-choice corporations refusing to cover contraception and sterilization procedures even in the face of federal court order to the contrary is just the corporate version of this same sit-in tactic.
Scott Lemieux breaks down 2012 and lays out what to expect in 2013 in the Supreme Court. Michigan passes a grotesque anti-abortion law, and Philadelphia high schools install free condom dispensers.
