[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 111 (Wednesday, July 16, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H6312]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   ACCESS TO BIRTH CONTROL FOR WOMEN

  (Mr. QUIGLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Speaker, I had hoped we would have settled this 
debate decades ago. Yet here we are in 2014, and we are still arguing 
over access to birth control for women.
  According to the five-man Supreme Court majority in the Hobby Lobby 
case, it wasn't enough for politicians to have a say in women's access 
to health care. Apparently, their employers should have a say, too. 
This decision is yet another example of the constitutional rights of 
individual Americans being trumped by the apparent rights of 
corporations. So a woman is entitled to her own religious beliefs as 
long as they don't get in the way of the religious beliefs of the 
corporation she works for.
  The Court's ruling in Hobby Lobby allows for for-profit companies to 
interfere with the personal health decisions of their employees, 
opening the door for employers to discriminate against women who are 
simply seeking practical medical care.
  Justice Ginsburg said it best in her scathing dissent: ``The Court 
has ventured into a minefield.'' Now it is up to Congress to find a way 
out.

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