Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

== Reactions ==
Barbara Green, co-founder of Hobby Lobby, said "Today, the nation's highest court has reaffirmed the vital importance of religious liberty as one of our country's founding principles. The court's decision is a victory, not just for our family business, but for all who seek to live out their faith."<ref name=Wolf>{{cite news|last1=Wolf|first1=Richard|title=Justices rule for Hobby Lobby on contraception mandate|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/06/30/supreme-court-hobby-lobby-religion-contraception-obama/11473189/|access-date=Jun 30, 2014|work=USA Today|date=Jun 30, 2014|archive-date=May 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518182851/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/06/30/supreme-court-hobby-lobby-religion-contraception-obama/11473189/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Conestoga CEO Anthony Hahn said, "Americans don't have to surrender their freedom when they open a family business."<ref name=Wolf/>

===Organizations===
Conservative and pro-life groups praised the ruling. ''[[National Review]]'' said that the Supreme Court ruling "[led] [[Alliance Defending Freedom]] attorney Matt Bowman to call ''Hobby Lobby'' an 'inclusive decision' that advances everyone's freedom."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/381619/rfra-worked-way-it-was-supposed-hobby-lobby-jennifer-marshall-sarah-torre|title=RFRA Worked the Way It Was Supposed To in Hobby Lobby|last=Torre|first=Sarah|author2=Jennifer A. Marshall|date=30 June 2014|publisher=[[National Review]]|access-date=13 July 2014|archive-date=14 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714060847/http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/381619/rfra-worked-way-it-was-supposed-hobby-lobby-jennifer-marshall-sarah-torre|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Susan B. Anthony List]] President [[Marjorie Dannenfelser]] said, "This is a great victory for religious liberty – the bedrock of our founding. In living out our religious convictions, there are certain things we must not do. This is why we are at a watershed moment. Religious people will no longer be ordered to take action that our religion says we must not take."<ref name=DeVogue>{{cite news|last1=De Vogue|first1=Ariane|title=Hobby Lobby Wins Contraceptive Ruling in Supreme Court|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hobby-lobby-wins-contraceptive-ruling-supreme-court/story?id=24364311&singlePage=true|access-date=Jun 30, 2014|work=abc News|date=Jun 30, 2014|archive-date=July 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701055009/http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hobby-lobby-wins-contraceptive-ruling-supreme-court/story?id=24364311&singlePage=true|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Family Research Council]] President [[Tony Perkins (politician)|Tony Perkins]] said, "The Supreme Court has delivered one of the most significant victories for religious freedom in our generation. We are thankful the Supreme Court agreed that the government went too far by mandating that family businesses owners must violate their consciences under threat of crippling fines."<ref name=DeVogue/> The [[U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops]] said, "We welcome the Supreme Court's decision to recognize that Americans can continue to follow their faith when they run a family business&nbsp;... Now is the time to redouble our efforts to build a culture that fully respects religious freedom."<ref name=Boorstein>{{cite news|last1=Boorstein|first1=Michelle|title=Faith groups divided in their reaction to court's decision affirming religious rights|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/faith-groups-divided-in-their-reaction-to-courts-decision-affirming-religious-rights/2014/06/30/24a29ba8-0091-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.html|access-date=Jul 4, 2014|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=Jun 30, 2014|archive-date=July 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702160636/http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/faith-groups-divided-in-their-reaction-to-courts-decision-affirming-religious-rights/2014/06/30/24a29ba8-0091-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Pro-choice]] and civil-liberties groups criticized the ruling. [[Cecile Richards]], president of the [[Planned Parenthood Action Fund]], said, "Today, the Supreme Court ruled against American women and families, giving bosses the right to discriminate against women and deny their employees access to birth control coverage. This is a deeply disappointing and troubling ruling that will prevent some women, especially those working hourly-wage jobs and struggling to make ends meet, from getting birth control."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bassett|first1=Laura|last2=Reilly|first2=Ryan J.|title=Supreme Court Rules In Hobby Lobby Case, Dealing Blow To Birth Control Coverage|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/30/supreme-court-hobby-lobby_n_5521444.html|access-date=Jun 30, 2014|work=The Huffington Post|date=Jun 30, 2014|archive-date=July 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701190726/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/30/supreme-court-hobby-lobby_n_5521444.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Deputy legal director of the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] Louise Melling said, "This is a deeply troubling decision. For the first time, the highest court in the country has said that business owners can use their religious beliefs to deny their employees a benefit that they are guaranteed by law."<ref name=MaggieFox/>

In an editorial, the ''[[New England Journal of Medicine]]'' called the decision "a setback for both the ACA's foundational goal of access to universal health care and for women's health care specifically", voicing concern that "in assessing the competing claims about abortion and birth control, the Court's majority focused on the religious claims of the corporations without discussing scientific or medical opinions."<ref name="nejm">{{cite journal | journal = N Engl J Med | vauthors = Annas GJ, Ruger TW, Ruger JP | title = Money, Sex, and Religion — The Supreme Court's ACA Sequel | year = 2014 | doi = 10.1056/NEJMhle1408081 | volume = 371 | issue = 9 | pages = 862–866 | pmid = 25029337 | url = https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2475&context=faculty_scholarship | access-date = 2019-09-24 | archive-date = 2021-04-17 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210417054204/https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2475&context=faculty_scholarship | url-status = live }}</ref> In ''[[JAMA Internal Medicine]]'', [[Alta Charo]] wrote that "consistent with a disturbing trend among courts and legislatures to misstate or misuse scientific information in the context of women's [[reproductive rights]] and health, the Supreme Court's decision ignored the well-accepted distinction between contraception and abortion."<ref name="jama">{{cite journal | journal = JAMA Internal Medicine | author = Charo RA | author-link = Alta Charo | year = 2014 | title = Conscience, Complicity, and Contraception | doi = 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.4200 | pmid = 25024087 | volume=174 | issue = 10 | pages = 1537–8 }}</ref> The [[American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists]], representing 90% of U.S. board-certified gynecologists, supported a bill to overturn the ''Hobby Lobby'' ruling.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bassett|first1=Laura|title=Major Doctors' Group Endorses Hobby Lobby Override Bill|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/14/major-doctors-group-endor_0_n_5585018.html|access-date=Jul 16, 2014|work=The Huffington Post|date=Jul 14, 2014|archive-date=July 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715165137/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/14/major-doctors-group-endor_0_n_5585018.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Government===
[[White House]] spokesman [[Josh Earnest]] said, "Congress needs to take action to solve this problem that's been created and the administration stands ready to work with them to do so. President Obama believes that women should make personal health care decisions for themselves, rather than their bosses deciding for them. Today's decision jeopardizes the health of women that are employed by these companies."<ref name=MaggieFox/>

Senate Majority Leader [[Harry Reid]] (D-Nev.) said, "If the Supreme Court will not protect women's access to health care, then Democrats will. We will continue to fight to preserve women's access to contraceptive coverage and keep bosses out of the examination room."<ref name=HaberkornGerstein/>

Senate Minority Leader [[Mitch McConnell]] said, "[T]he Obama administration cannot trample on the religious freedoms that Americans hold dear."<ref name=HaberkornGerstein>{{cite news|last1=Haberkorn|first1=Jennifer|last2=Gerstein|first2=Josh|title=Supreme Court sides with Hobby Lobby on contraception mandate|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/supreme-court-hobby-lobby-decision-contraception-mandate-108429.html|access-date=Jun 30, 2014|work=Politico|date=Jun 30, 2014|archive-date=July 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701061139/http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/supreme-court-hobby-lobby-decision-contraception-mandate-108429.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Senator [[Chuck Schumer]] (D-NY), who introduced the RFRA in 1993, said his law "was not intended to extend the same protection to for-profit corporations, whose very purpose is to profit from the open market."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Peterson|first1=Kristina|title=Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby Ruling Ignites Debate Over Religious-Freedom Law|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-courts-hobby-lobby-ruling-ignites-debate-over-religious-freedom-law-1404155510|access-date=Jun 30, 2014|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=Jun 30, 2014|archive-date=December 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222105840/http://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-courts-hobby-lobby-ruling-ignites-debate-over-religious-freedom-law-1404155510|url-status=live}}</ref>

Speaker of the House [[John Boehner]] (R-Ohio) said, "The mandate overturned today would have required for-profit companies to choose between violating their constitutionally-protected faith or paying crippling fines, which would have forced them to lay off employees or close their doors."<ref name=Carmon>{{cite news|last1=Carmon|first1=Irin|title=Supreme Court rules for Hobby Lobby in contraception case|url=http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hobby-lobby-supreme-court-wins-narrow-ruling|access-date=Jun 30, 2014|work=msnbc|date=Jun 30, 2014|archive-date=June 30, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630183238/http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hobby-lobby-supreme-court-wins-narrow-ruling|url-status=live}}</ref>

House minority leader [[Nancy Pelosi]] (D-CA) said, "Although the Court restricted their ruling to 'closely held' companies, this ruling will immediately affect the lives of millions of women across the country. Over 90 percent of America's businesses are 'closely held', including such large employers as [[Koch Industries]] and [[Bechtel]].<ref name=Carmon/> Women should not be forced to jump through extra hoops to secure the fundamental health care they need. Allowing employers and CEOs to limit the health care available to employees is a gross violation of their workers' religious rights. It's just not her boss' business."<ref name=MaggieFox>{{cite news|last1=Fox|first1=Maggie|title=Supreme Court on Birth Control: What Hobby Lobby Ruling Means|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/supreme-court-birth-control-what-hobby-lobby-ruling-means-n144526|access-date=Jun 30, 2014|work=NBC News|date=Jun 30, 2014|archive-date=June 30, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630191817/http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/supreme-court-birth-control-what-hobby-lobby-ruling-means-n144526|url-status=live}}</ref>

Senator [[Ted Cruz]] (R-Tex.) said, "Today's victory in the Hobby Lobby case is terrific news—but now is no time to rest. We cannot rely on the courts alone to defend our religious liberty."<ref name=DeVogue/>

Senator [[Orrin Hatch]] (R-Utah) said, "I applaud the Supreme Court's decision to protect the religious freedom of all Americans, both individually and collectively. The notion that religious freedom belongs only to some, and even then only in private, defies our nation's traditions, our laws, and our Constitution. And as the Supreme Court rightfully said today, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act could not have been clearer in saying religious liberty of all Americans must be equally protected and not unnecessarily burdened."<ref name=DeVogue/>

Rep. [[Michele Bachmann]] (R-Minn) said, "I am extremely encouraged by today's Supreme Court decision to uphold the religious liberty rights of the Green family of Hobby Lobby."<ref name=DeVogue/>