Dear Mustang and Luddly:
I have no doubt HL would be even more aggressive and vocal in suing the govt
if federal mandates forced them to invest in Chinese labor and forced abortions!
That was the point of the lawsuit. Federal regulations requiring it or pay millions in fines.
It is one thing to choose to invest, or to change it if problems like this are pointed out.
It is another thing for FEDERAL GOVT TO PENALIZE FREE CHOICE.
Luddly since you are prochoice, I thought you would understand this argument
from a prochoice perspective.
You mentioned Roe V. Wade, which also struck down a law because it criminalized abortion instead of defending free choice without fear of penalty
[where ACA penalizes the free choice of health care], because "due process" could not be conducted without imposing on women and violate privacy.
Respect for the same principle of "due process" is used to argue AGAINST insurance mandates and FOR FREE CHOICE of health care (again without fear of penalty by law), where this federal law
DEPRIVES us of civil liberty or "freedom to choose how to pay for health care" without ANY DUE PROCESS to PROVE citizens committed a crime first and deserve to forfeit freedoms BEFORE penalizing us.
The law was passed, with the penalties already prescribed on ALL citizens, without proving ANY crime was committed first or there was any ill intent not to pay for health care.
Why are people and now whole companies being DEPRIVED OF RIGHTS like criminals?
But it's okay to trust women with the choice of abortion and not penalize that choice?
Prochoice activists don't even want govt to REGULATE the choice of abortion.
How can federal regulations AND FINES be imposed on the choice of health care without violating these same "prochoice principles"?
Isn't that political fraud?
So aren't the "prochoice" advocates in the same boat as Hobby Lobby?
Claiming to DEFEND "prochoice" and "freedom from govt regulation"
but using the federal govt and IRS to penalize the free choice of health care?
What is it that Mr Sulu used to say?
Oh, MY!
I can't wait for HL to explain this one. Considering their so-called "sincerely held religious beliefs," no doubt whatever they say will sound more like a contrived excuse than a real explanation that seems honestly innocent in nature.
Remember what they say is the root of all evil? It's the love of money.
The owners of Hobby Lobby, a Christian-owned craft supply chain, were so offended by the idea of having to include emergency contraceptives and intrauterine devices in their health insurance plans that they sued the Obama administration and took the case all the way up to the Supreme Court. But
Mother Jones reported on Tuesday that the company's retirement plan has invested millions of dollars in the manufacturers of emergency contraception and drugs used to induce abortions.
Hobby Lobby's 401(k) employee retirement plan holds $73 million in mutual funds that invest in multiple pharmaceutical companies that produce emergency contraceptive pills, intrauterine devices, and abortion-inducing medications.
The companies Hobby Lobby invests in include Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, which makes the Plan B morning-after pill and ParaGard, a copper IUD, as well as Pfizer, the maker of the abortion-inducing drugs Cytotec and Prostin E2. Hobby Lobby's mutual funds also invest in two health insurance companies that cover surgical abortions, abortion drugs, and emergency contraception in their health care policies.
Hobby Lobby's attorneys argue that the provision in the Affordable Care Act that requires most employers to cover contraception in their health plans infringes on the company's right to exercise religious freedom because the company's owners believe that emergency contraception and IUDs are actually forms of abortion. Medical studies
have debunked this claim.
Mother Jones reported that all nine of the mutual funds Hobby Lobby's retirement plan holds include investments that clash with the owners' religious beliefs about abortion.
Hobby Lobby Invests In Abortion Pill Manufacturers