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NARAL Pro-Choice America: Bad Bosses Receive SCOTUS-Mandated Guidance on For-Profit Exemptions on Hobby Lobby Rule Sanctioning Discrimination

Today, the Obama administration issued a final rule that defines a "for-profit corporation" to clarify those companies allowed to deny their employees birth control coverage now required by law under the Affordable Care Act.

Said Sasha Bruce, senior vice president at NARAL Pro-Choice America:

"The Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision sanctions discrimination. No bosses should have control over what family-planning services their employees use.

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Today, the Obama administration issued a final rule that defines a "for-profit corporation" to clarify those companies allowed to deny their employees birth control coverage now required by law under the Affordable Care Act.

Said Sasha Bruce, senior vice president at NARAL Pro-Choice America:

"The Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision sanctions discrimination. No bosses should have control over what family-planning services their employees use.

"This loophole for bosses to impose their personal views on women in the workplace is a sad consequence of the decision issued by anti-choice Supreme Court justices.

"Just when women think they are moving into the 21st century, they are being told that their rights have discriminatory exceptions. Lawmakers in Congress should pass the Not My Bosses Business Act to stop any employer that tries to bully their staff by deciding when employees can start or grow their families."

For over 50 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.

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