Hobby Lobby has given health insurance to its employees long before the (un)Affordable Care Act came into effect, offering 16 of 20 Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptives. Because of deep religious beliefs against abortion (which all Judeo-Christian religions are against), its owners felt in good conscience they could not offer the other four abortion-inducing contraceptives.

The Supreme Court chose to uphold the 1993 “Freedom of Religious Restoration Act” introduced by Sen. Chuck Shumer, D-N.Y., signed into law by the President Clinton with near unanimous Democratic votes. It is amusing the way Hillary Clinton made some crazy statement comparing the U.S. to an “extremist Third World country” when her husband’s law was validated.

More history for the Herald: Religious freedom – a hallmark of the Constitution – has been in place since 1791. Women’s “contraceptive rights” have been around for three years, starting when Nancy Pelosi held a mock congressional hearing and paraded out Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student who was upset the Catholic institution did not offer contraceptives in its health policies. Fluke stated, “I’m entitled to it.”

Why? Did America become great and exceptional by relying on others and the government, or self-reliance and personal responsibility?

Give women more credit. I am sure they are far more concerned with the fact the federal government is not solving the nation’s problems but actually creating more. Then the Herald adds an absurd editorial cartoon depicting Hobby Lobby, which pays employees double minimum wage, preventing women from getting these abortion devices. Woman can go to the store and buy them. That’s equality. This aftershock is a “war on the traditional religious Americans,” not a phony distracting “war on women.”

Robert Goodrich

Bayfield