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Hobby Lobby: Go Ahead and Fine Us, We Won’t Comply With ‘Morning-After’ Mandate

Dec. 28, 2012 11:06am Becket Adams

Attorney: Hobby Lobby Wont Offer Morning After Pill

(AP)

Despite the fact that it could result in fines of up to $1.3 million per day, an attorney for Hobby Lobby Stores announced Thursday the company’s plan to ignore a federal mandate requiring all employers provide employees with health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.

“Hobby Lobby and religious book-seller Mardel Inc., which are owned by the same conservative Christian family, are suing to block part of the federal health care law that requires employee health-care plans to provide insurance coverage for the morning-after pill and similar emergency contraception pills,” the Associated Press notes.

“The companies claim the mandate violates the religious beliefs of their owners. They say the morning-after pill is tantamount to abortion because it can prevent a fertilized egg from becoming implanted in a woman’s womb,” the report adds.

And although Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor “denied the companies’ request for an injunction while their lawsuit is pending,” as the AP notes, she explained that the companies may challenge the new health regulation in lower courts.

Hobby Lobby is being represented by Kyle Duncan of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

“Hobby Lobby doesn’t intend to offer its employees insurance that would cover the drug while its lawsuit is pending,” Duncan said in a statement.

“The company will continue to provide health insurance to all qualified employees,” Duncan said. “To remain true to their faith, it is not their intention, as a company, to pay for abortion-inducing drugs.”

U.S. District Judge Joe Heaton last month in a ruling against the companies said churches and religious groups are protected from the birth-control provisions but that “Hobby Lobby and Mardel are not religious organizations.”

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Comments (301)

Cyber Geezer
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:31pm
NO QUESTION ABOUT IT … this dictatorial, tyrannical government is no longer the government of the America Constitution. As such, the choice is either roll over and accept more chains on you and your grandchildren or you can take and use the 2nd amendment for what it was intended and fight another American revolution to remove this government and do a do-over.

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everydaywoman
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 1:08pm
May God continue to bless this company and continue to give them strength.

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CAL.30M1
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 3:10pm
Is it just me, or does anyone else see that islam is dividing the Christian Faith in America? The muslums are a united religion against the traditional beliefs of the U.S. They are creeping slowly into every facet of America to take over. Stand United with the owners of Hobby Lobby or get in line with the other sheep.

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rootytoottootin
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 7:47am
Hip hip hooray for Hobby Lobby & anyone else that stands up against the evil in our government!!!
It’s good reading on all these posts that are for HL. Good to see certain ones ignored-ha!

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GRusling
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 7:17am
Every business in FREE America should simply follow Hobby Lobby’s lead and refuse to comply. The more, the merrier. Inform the fed that they and their customers will be armed and waiting for the federal “enforcers” to show up and make them comply! I’ll be more than happy to join that defensive force…

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no_kool_aid
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 1:00am
Government does not give rights! Rights come from above!

I’m ready to head back to 1776.

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Mom for freedom
Posted on December 29, 2012 at 9:56pm
I am responding to the quote of what Jesus said “render to Ceasar what is Ceasar and God what is God’s.” Guess what, EVERYTHING belongs to God. Nothing was made that has been made that wasn’t made for HIM and by HIM. Therefore, Hobby Lobby is morally, spiritually and legally correct because All comes from God including our laws. They are following the laws of God. THOU Shalt not commit murder.

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hgaut
Posted on December 29, 2012 at 9:39pm
Just as I have become a loyal customer of Chic-Fil-A, I will shop more often at Hobby Lobby instead of Michaels. It’s further away but I like the fact they they’ll stand for their Christian principles. They’ve got my loyalty,.

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MarilynBr
Posted on December 29, 2012 at 8:18pm
There isn’t a Hobby Lobby where I live, but it’s online at http://shop.hobbylobby.com. Now that I know they are online, I will shop there to support them.

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harleyman
Posted on December 29, 2012 at 6:38pm
Good for them. We need to all defy everything this Obama gov’t does.

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The Third Archon
Posted on December 29, 2012 at 6:16pm
“HOBBY LOBBY: GO AHEAD AND FINE US, WE WON’T COMPLY WITH ‘MORNING-AFTER’ MANDATE”
That’s fine–just let yourself be fined out of existence. No one will weep.

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- GRusling
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 7:29am
  You are a fool. The federal government is nowhere authorized by the Constitution to inject itself into medical practices and procedures at any level — therefore ANY and ALL laws made in Washington with regard to the practice of medicine are totally unconstitutional. That’s a simple fact, and while you have a perfect right to your own opinion on any subject, you have no right at all to your own facts! Your remark makes you extremely foolish…
  
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