By Charlotte Alter, Mar. 25, 2014
The three
women of the Supreme Court dominated questioning at the beginning of Tuesday’s
oral arguments in a case pitting religious business owners against the new
health care reform law’s mandate that employer-provided insurance cover
contraceptive care.
The court
case will determine whether Hobby Lobby, a Christian-owned craft store chain,
and Conestoga Wood Specialties, a cabinet company, can be exempted from
providing contraception coverage to female employees through federally mandated
health insurance policies.
Supreme
Court proceedings make for notoriously difficult and unreliable predictors of
how justices might rule on a case. That said, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena
Kagan, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg wasted no time in pressing the corporate
challengers, according to the Wall Street Journal‘s live blog of
the oral arguments.
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