{"id":51381,"date":"2014-07-05T21:54:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T01:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=51381"},"modified":"2014-07-05T13:37:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T17:37:09","slug":"fact-hobby-lobby-does-offer-coverage-for-contraception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fact-hobby-lobby-does-offer-coverage-for-contraception\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact: Hobby Lobby does offer coverage for contraception"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Shortly after Hobby Lobby\u2019s win at the U.S. Supreme Court, pro-abortion proponents took to social media, calling the high court\u2019s decision a war against\u00a0women. Opponents argued that the\u00a0court ruling gives employers the ability to deny employees coverage of birth control and related health care benefits, and some even suggested explicit types of protests against\u00a0Hobby Lobby stores.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But as arguments against the Hobby Lobby case are shrouded in women\u2019s rights and\u00a0birth control, few realize that the arts and crafts store, owned by Evangelical Christians, does in fact provide contraception coverage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hobby Lobby currently covers 16 out of the 20 drugs mandated under the Affordable Care Act. So, the entire notion that the U.S. Supreme Court Burwell\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">v.<\/span>\u00a0Hobby Lobby<em>\u00a0<\/em>decision\u00a0tramples on the rights of women to receive contraception coverage from their employers is faulty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Hobby Lobby\u2019s owners, the Green family, does not object to cover most\u00a0contraceptives listed\u00a0in the Obamacare mandate; however, the family does object to providing coverage to abortaficients\u00a0and devices\u00a0that threaten the life of an\u00a0unborn child. The four drugs Hobby Lobby objects to in the list of 20\u00a0are Plan B,\u00a0Ella, the morning-after-pill and the week-after pill. The Green family argues that covering abortion inducing drugs\u00a0violate their religious belief that life begins at the moment of conception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">In addition, Hobby Lobby has never attempted to stop women from obtaining an abortion. The Green family simply refuses to pay for drugs that could cause an\u00a0abortion because of religious convictions.\u00a0<\/span>In fact, the chain store\u00a0will continue to offer contraception\u00a0coverage\u00a0for its employees&#8211;just not drugs or devices that have the ability to end human life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after Hobby Lobby\u2019s win at the U.S. Supreme Court, pro-abortion proponents took to social media, calling the high court\u2019s decision a war against\u00a0women. Opponents argued that the\u00a0court ruling gives employers the ability to deny employees coverage of birth control and related health care benefits, and some even suggested explicit types of protests against\u00a0Hobby Lobby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":33022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[145,24,320,2059,310,2556],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fact: Hobby Lobby does offer coverage for contraception<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hobby Lobby stores do offer 16 types of contraception coverage as mandated by the Affordable Care Act.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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