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Contraceptive Coverage & the Supreme Court
The stately Lady Justice sits beneath the Supreme Court inscription: “EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW.”
Advocates at the national family planning conference visited our elected officials this week. As I passed Lady Justice, I thought about the pending case on contraceptive insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Much of the public is weary of this tedious and endless debate on women’s health and women’s rights. But if the court’s motto is not to become an epitaph for equality for women, individual constitutional rights in these most intimate and personal decisions must be upheld.
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