Liz Cheney on emergency contraception: Liberals think ‘abortion rights trump everything’

[DonViejo]

By David Edwards
Sunday, July 6, 2014 11:42 EDT

Fox News contributor Liz Cheney asserted on Sunday that the government’s legal argument that would have forced Hobby Lobby to cover emergency contraception for its female employees was “abortion rights trump everything.”

During a panel discussion on Fox News Sunday, Cheney argued that with both the Hobby Lobby case and a Thursday ruling which went even further by granting an injunction to Wheaton College, a small evangelical college, that the court was “doing something that was very straightforward.”

“Both of these cases show — particularly if you look at the dissents — the court was saying Religious Freedom Restoration Act says the government’s got to have a compelling interest if it’s going to burden your free exercise of religion, and it has to choose the least restrictive means to do that.”

“The dissents in both of these cases show the passion that’s there, but also, frankly, a legal theory we haven’t seen before,” she continued. “Which is essentially a theory that says, abortion rights trump everything else. Abortion rights are more important than the free exercise of religion.”

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[PowerToThePeople]

1. Your free exercise of ANYTHING stops at anyone else. n/t

[spanone]

2. only the truly ignorant confuse contraception with abortion.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. Yes, and very few are telling the truth that the contraceptives objected to

are not abortifacients. The science does not support the HL position. The SCOTUS decision was not based on facts.

[jwirr]

3. So lizzie you can have religious freedom but I cannot. My chuch does not try to rule my sex life and

as a woman I have used birth control. So your church trumps mine? NO. Your church is trying to force the rest of us to live your way. As a Christian I reject that and I think the SCOTUS has made a big mistake - I also have freedom of religion and my church would never try to force you to live according to my rules for they are personal rules that I have subscribed to not rules to control others.

What this law has done is take the corporate "person" and give it more rights than real humans. A job with this "person" depends on obeying its corporate religious beliefs (Obviously the "person" can have beliefs.). That leaves the real person no rights except to go without healthcare if they want a job.

[PumpkinAle]

5. Another ignorant mouth piece who knows nothing