Join the week of action to protest the Hobby Lobby decision & attacks on women's rights: July 3 - Ju
WORD--Women Organized to Resist and Defend
Stop the war on women’s rights!
Contraception IS healthcare!
Free, safe, legal abortion on demand!
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The Supreme Court has shown itself to be the enemy of all women. The decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby constitutes an immediate attack on women’s health and reproductive rights. The Court is one more weapon in the arsenal of the right-wing, anti-woman bigots who would deny women the right to control our bodies. This is part of a larger set of attacks over the last few years that intend to destroy the rights women won through militant mass movement in the 1970s.
The Burwell decision enshrines the totally unscientific religious beliefs held by owners of a corporation as highly valuable, while denying the healthcare needs of the women workers of the corporation. Because the Green family that owns Hobby Lobby believes—despite thoroughly researched scientific evidence—that life begins at conception, and the morning after pill and IUD prevent conception, the Supreme Court has declared that Hobby Lobby shouldn’t have to comply with the Affordable Care Act coverage of those forms of birth control.
No employer should have the right to deny women their rights to make decisions about their health and well-being, including their reproductive health. The misleading words “closely held” are used by the court to describe Hobby Lobby, but in reality obscure the breadth of their decision. Hobby Lobby is not some small family-owned, religious-based business. It is a giant crafts store with 500 outlets and 16,000 employees. Not one of those 16,000 workers should have their health decisions undermined or negated because of the owner’s beliefs.
The Green family are religious bigots whose belief that contraception is equal to abortion (which it is not) and that abortion is immoral (which it is not) have now been supported by the Supreme Court’s decision.
The ruling that a corporation should be protected as if it were an individual—even though corporations are also protected from individual liability—and that the owners’ religious beliefs allow them to flout the law leads down a slippery slope of bigoted and hate-based politics. This constitutes a dangerous claim that corporate owners and bosses can use to carry out any number of racist, sexist, anti-LGBTQ, bigoted policies against workers based on their gender, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.
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Join WORD on July 3-13 in a city near you or call an action in your city and add it to the list! Events are being added every day!
Event Listing:
Los Angeles, Calif.
Date/Time/Location TBD
Info: [email protected] or 323-394-3611
San Francisco, Calif.
Thurs. July 3, 5:30 p.m.
Powell and Market Sts.
Info: [email protected] or 415-375-9502
New Haven, Conn.
Sat. July 5, 10:00 a.m.
Hobby Lobby, 68 Frontage Rd, East Haven, CT
Info: [email protected] or 203-787-8232
Washington D.C. area: Laurel, Maryland
Sat. July 5, 11:30 a.m.
Meet across the parking lot from Hobby Lobby (near Chik-fil-A)
3333 Corridor Marketplace, Laurel, Maryland
We will walk to Hobby Lobby as a group after we assemble
Info: [email protected] or 240-487-WORD (9673)
Albuquerque, N.M.
Mon. July 7, 4:00 p.m.
Hobby Lobby, 4315 Wyoming Blvd NE
Info: [email protected] or 505-249-1768
New York City, N.Y.
Date/Time/Location TBD
Info: [email protected] or 347-292-WORD (9673)
Seattle, Wash.
Sun. July 13, 5:00 p.m.
Future Hobby Lobby site, Aurora Ave N at N. 130th
Info: [email protected] or 206-568-1661
Email us at [email protected] to add details of your event!
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