challenging the obamacare mandate that all businesses provide contraception coverage for their employees. hobby lobby s owners believe certain forms of contraception amount to abortion and they say the law violates their religious rights. so, let s get some insight from professor jonathan turley of the george washington university school of law. professor turley, nice to see you. hi, randi. a lot to discuss here. what would the legal impact of obamacare if justices voted in favor of hobly lobby? a very significant impact in the sense they would have to accommodate the religious views of these types of companies. not for profit company, but an actual company like hobby lobby, which to, in fairness to them, was structured along the religious views of the green family. and they do oppose contra accept eggs. now, would that kill the a ca? no, it wouldn t. it would create a lot of complications. there s actually a case two blocks away in the d.c. circuit
anyway. there s plenty of alternatives. also coming on monday, the court s going to announce its decision on the affordable care act requirement, that the employer health plans provide contraception coverage. i just feel this case has got your liberal extremists, everyone is jumping on the bandwagon because it s about contraception. it is really not. first of all, hobby lobby is suing under the religious freedom restoration act. alex, this act has been around for over 20 years. they apply a strict scrutiny test. this is not some sliding scale slope where everybody s going to claim a religious exemption to, in fact, discriminate. no. this case, they don t want to provide, hobby lobby doesn t want to provide 4 out of 20 available methods of contraception. the things that they are opposed to are things like iuds
the senate can t play games and have a fake recess to stop all business. let s move on to hobby lobby. if the supreme court does decide in their favor, how fast and what might we see in terms of required changes? the kind of changes you would see if the supreme court goes against the aca, and basically says there s a greater corporate right for corporations to have basically sway over what their individual employees would get in terms of contraception coverage or other religious issues. it could effect any of the employees. the truth is, most companies don t even want the so-called freedom. you know, most fortune 100 companies aren t interested in making scripture a part of the policy. it would be a symbolic blow to the aca. rehave heard the supreme court say they ll strike down parts of the aca. even the decision after the individual mandate.
and have them paid for, is that such a towering good that it would suffocate the rights of conscience? i don t think so but i hope the supreme court agrees. most catholics in82% say usel is morally acceptable. cardinal dolan, he doesn t get it. this issue goes far beyond birth control. the affordable health care act finally treats american women with equal coverage at equal cost and access, plus contraception coverage is not just about family planning. nearly 60% of women on birth control use it for medical reasons other than preventing pregnancy. more than half of women have had times where they could not afford these prescriptions. so if cardinal dolan thinks american women can get the best health care at the same place they buy slurpies and lottery tickets, he can keep on pretending. ay place
we believe that this country is not ours but we are stewards of it. and we re called to operate it according to biblical principles. that s what we believe and we cannot do otherwise. that was the president of hobby lobby, which as you know has been arguing to the supreme court that the company s owners are morally opposed to providing contraception coverage in the employees health care plans, but molly redden of mother jones has found, quote, this is from her report, documents filed with the department of labor and dated december 2012, three months after the company s owners filed their lawsuit show that the hobby hobby 401(k) employee retirement plan held more than $73 million in mutual funds with investments in