Reuters
In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court sided with plaintiffs Tina and Tabitha Brown (ages 6 and 8). The DOJ, acting on behalf of HHS, had filed suit against Tina And Tabitha Brown, proprietors of a lemonade stand, for noncompliance with the Affordable Care Act.
In a blistering dissent, Justice Ruth Bader said "The exemption sought by Tina and Tabitha's lemonade stand operation would deny legions of little girls who don't hold their employers' beliefs access to Viagra and vasectomies."
Ilyse Hogue, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America said: "Allowing lemonade stand bosses this much control over the health-care decisions of their employees is a slippery slope with no end. Every American could potentially be affected by this far-reaching and shocking decision that allows big sisters to reach beyond the lemonade stand and into their kid sister's bedrooms. The majority claims that its ruling is limited, but that logic doesn't hold up. Today it's birth control; tomorrow it could be executives denying asthmatic employees the right to carry inhalers."
Presumptive presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said: “It’s the first time that our court has said that a lemonade stand has the rights of a person when it comes to religious freedom, which means little girls selling lemonade can impose their religious beliefs on their employees, and, of course, denying lemonade stand checkout operators the right to contraceptives as part of a health care plan is exactly that."
Laugh while you can...the loop holes will soon be closed and so will all the non-compliant entities who thumb their collective noses at the law of the land!
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