Another Birth Control Benefit Foe Reportedly Landed Position at HHS

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Another Birth Control Benefit Foe Reportedly Landed Position at HHS

https://rewire.news/article/2017/07/11/another-birth-control-benefit-foe-reportedly-landed-position-hhs/



Jul 11, 2017, 6:07pm Ally Boguhn

While at the anti-choice Alliance Defending Freedom, Matthew Bowman—who the New York Times reports is now serving as “a top lawyer at the Department of Health and Human Services"—successfully represented cabinet manufacturer Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. in a case over the Affordable Care Act’s birth control benefit.

While with Alliance Defending Freedom, Bowman was “a key member of the Life Litigation Project to protect the sanctity of human life,” according to his since-deleted staff biography. He also played a major role in litigating some of ADF’s most prominent religious imposition cases.
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Bowman was a member of ADF’s legal team representing cabinet manufacturer Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. in a Supreme Court case against HHS over the ACA’s birth control benefit. The Court heard the case in a 2014 hearing alongside the landmark Burwell v. Hobby Lobby case, as both the craft store and Conestoga argued that providing health insurance coverage for some kinds of contraception violated their religious beliefs.

When speaking about the birth control benefit, Bowman repeatedly promoted the false claim that intrauterine devices and emergency contraceptives cause abortions. His distaste for ensuring access to contraceptives extended to writing a January 2015 post for the conservative site TownHall.com with the headline: “How the contraception mandate may spread measles.”

Bowman has also represented fake clinics—commonly referred to as “crisis pregnancy centers” (CPCs)—which routinely lie to patients to persuade them against having an abortion. In one case, he argued against California’s Reproductive Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care, and Transparency (FACT) Act, a law requiring CPCs to provide information about the availability of birth control and abortion services