Pennsylvania’s war over birth control returns to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, but this time they’re phoning it in
The last time the
The issue returns to the court on Wednesday with a case that could carve out even more exemptions. But a lot has changed in the intervening years.
The
Attorney General
“While the circumstances for the hearing are unusual,” he said, “our argument really remains the same. Reproductive rights are on the line here … so is the rule of law.”
Specifically, the question presented to the court centers on whether even more employers with religious and moral objections should be allowed to deny insurance coverage for birth control.
In 2017, newly installed President
A federal judge in
From 2019 -- Philly judge blocks Trump efforts to roll back birth control mandateThat decision was held up on appeal to the
The high court’s conservative leaning, buoyed by the appointments of
But, more importantly, the case offers the
The court’s 2014 ruling in the
The Obama administration countered with compromise regulations that required those companies to still provide health care plans with no-cost contraception to their employees, but shifted the burden of paying for the birth control from the employers to their insurers.
That prompted another suit out of
But the
This time,
They are joined in their fight by the
“The school simply doesn’t want to be responsible for providing something it believes is bad for its students,” one of the order’s members,
But
What’s more, the states argue, the Trump administration did not follow a legally required process giving interested parties a chance to comment before implementing the rule change. They are joined by more than 20 other states that have filed supportive briefs with the court.
“We obviously find ourselves in unprecedented times facing unprecedented challenges,” Shapiro said. “But if anything, this pandemic has made one thing clear: people need more access to health care, not less.”
The justices are scheduled to hear arguments starting at
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