So, about that US Supreme Court ruling.... [View all]

Five justices-all of them men-ruled that women can be denied health care (contraceptives are part of health care, of course) because their employer (a corporation, in fact) has owners whose right-wing religious beliefs hold that women don't have the right to control their own bodies.

Alito wrote that the owners of Hobby Lobby believe that the coverage required of the health care law "is connected to the destruction of an embryo in a way that is sufficient to make it immoral for them to provide the coverage … HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] has not shown that it lacks other means of achieving its desired goal without imposing a substantial burden on the exercise of religion by the objecting parties in these cases.”

"Protecting the free-exercise rights of corporations like Hobby Lobby, Conestoga and Mardel protects the religious liberty of the humans who own and control those FRFR companies,” Alito wrote in the majority opinion.