Hillary Clinton Slams Corporate Personhood and Hobby Lobby Decision

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Hillary Clinton speaks at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado, Monday

“I obviously disagree … I disagree with the reasoning as well as the conclusion.” Just think about this for a minute. It’s the first that our court has said that a closely held corporation has the rights of a person when it comes to religious freedom. Which means that the corporation and closely held are often family based, not exclusively, but usually. That the corporation’s employers can impose their religious beliefs on their employees and, of course, denying women the right to contraception as part of their health care plan is exactly that. I find it deeply disturbing that we’re going in that direction.”

“Part of the reason I was so adamant about including women and girls in our foreign policy, not as a luxury but as a central issue, is because they’re often the canaries in the mine,” Clinton said.

“You watch women and girls being deprived of their rights, some of them never have them, some of them lose them. Among those rights is control over their bodies, control over their own health care, control over the size of their families. It is a disturbing trend that you see in a lot of societies that are very unstable, anti-democratic, and frankly prone to extremism. Where women and women’s bodies are used as the defining and unifying issue to bring together people — men — to get them to behave in ways that are disadvantageous to women but which prop up them because of their religion, their sect, their tribe, whatever. So to introduce this element into our society… it’s very troubling that a sales clerk at Hobby Lobby who needs contraception, which is pretty expensive, is not going to get that service through her employer’s health care plan because her employer doesn’t think she should be using contraception.”

read/watch: http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/hillary-clinton-hobby-lobby-ruling-deeply-disturbing

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1. It is about our choices. Heard a RW the other day complaining about some

Regulations halting her right to choose, well, here is an example of women loosing the opportunity to choose. Hillary has fought for women's rights, the fight is not over.

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2. k&r...

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3. Hillary has been consistent

I am not a single issue voter but have priorities and the 1st on the list is women's issues specifically reproductive and economic rights so I have admired Hillary for years. I'm sure she will have more to say.

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5. Kick and highly recommended!

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6. K&R

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7. kick

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8. Hillary has worked for women and girls her entire life. Always.

That's just a fact, and one of her most admirable qualities.

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*Still haven't filled in my ballot for 2016

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9. kick

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