It was a revealing convergence Monday when the five-member conservative Supreme Court majority delivered the Hobby Lobby contraception decision even as President Obama announced that House Republicans had officially shelved immigration reform. Both disputes reaffirmed the GOP’s identity as the champion of the forces most resistant to the profound demographic […] Read more »
Republican Party factions and the Hobby Lobby decision
… Cases like the Hobby Lobby contraception case bring a new frame to social issues. Instead of using a culture war frame, as in the 1980s and 1990s, or the idea of returning to traditional values, these debates cast social issues in terms of religious liberty. (Obviously, there are also […] Read more »
A Court Ruling That Both Sides Can Run With
… Democrats have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the last several years to cast Republicans as callous and extreme on women’s health issues. And party strategists believe their ability to hold on to the Senate this year depends in large part on persuading women that a Republican Senate […] Read more »
What Women Think of the Core Issue in the Hobby Lobby Case
The Supreme Court decision upholding Hobby Lobby’s ability to refuse to cover certain contraceptive services based on its owners’ religious beliefs has set off a wave of analysis of what the decision means. That will not be resolved anytime soon. But we do know what women think of the policy […] Read more »
Court Out of Step With Public on Contraception Coverage
The ruling by the Supreme Court on Monday in the Hobby Lobby case runs counter to general public opinion, a recent poll shows. CONT. Megan Thee-Brenan, New York Times Recent polls: The ACA and contraception Read more »
Americans are really confused about whether they like the Supreme Court’s birth control decision
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that “closely held” companies with religious owners cannot be required to provide their employees with birth control if they have religious objections to it. Do the American people agree? Well, no. And yes. Contraception is one of those issues on which you can get vastly […] Read more »