Rep. Mark Takano Statement on Hobby Lobby Supreme Court Ruling

Washington, DC –Earlier today, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. The 5-4 decision ruled that closely held corporations could deny women access to contraception. Rep. Mark Takano issued the following statement:

 

“Today’s decision by the Supreme Court to give corporations say-so over women’s health coverage is misguided and I disagree with the ruling. The owners of Hobby Lobby or other closely held for-profit corporations should not be able to impose their personal religious beliefs on their employees and interfere with a woman’s access to contraception.  

 

“In a prior ruling, the Court permitted individual voices to be drowned out by unlimited political spending, and today, it has expanded the reach of corporations to supersede the right of women to make their own health decisions. I suspect that if the Hobby Lobby case had been about a corporation’s ability to stop men’s access to Viagra or Cialis, the male justices who took health care decisions away from women today would have ruled differently.”