Marilyn Katz :
Women vs. the Catholic Church, Round 2

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Thorne Dreyer

Just whose rights was the Constitution written to protect? It is women, not institutions, who are at the center of this debate.

Graphic from Bilgrimage.

By Marilyn Katz | The Rag Blog | January 20, 2014

Exactly whom — or what — do the constitution’s guarantees of freedom protect? That’s the question that the Supreme Court has indicated it will take up when Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor surprised many, including me, by putting a temporary injunction against implementation of the aspects of the Affordable Care Act that require institutions to provide birth control coverage in its insurance offerings.
For those who might somehow have missed it, Judge Sotomayor’s actions came in response to a lawsuit filed by two organizations affiliated with the Catholic Church — both of which claim that the requirement violates the Constitution’s guarantee of freedom of religion.
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