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Braley Statement on the Supreme Court's Decision Restricting Women's Access to Contraceptives

Statement

Date: June 30, 2014
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Women Business and Consumers Health and Health Care

Rep. Bruce Braley (IA-01) today issued the following statement after the Supreme Court's decision involving Hobby Lobby Stores Inc.:

"99 percent of women choose to use contraceptives--and many of those women gain that access through their employer-sponsored health care coverage. It's deeply troubling that today the Supreme Court decided that corporations can now unilaterally deny their employees access to birth control. Recent health care reforms had ended the days when women unfairly faced higher health-care costs and were routinely denied access to health care coverage and services--today's decision moves us backward. Women's health care shouldn't be subject to the whims of corporations and we need to continue to fight to ensure that women have equal access to health services."


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