{"id":17755,"date":"2014-07-09T19:19:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T23:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=17755"},"modified":"2014-07-09T19:19:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T23:19:09","slug":"support-the-protect-womens-health-from-corporate-interference-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/07\/09\/support-the-protect-womens-health-from-corporate-interference-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Support the Protect Women’s Health from Corporate Interference Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

An email from Elizabeth Warren sent me to her web page, Fight back against Hobby Lobby: Support the Protect Women’s Health from Corporate Interference Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If we’re going to respond to Hobby Lobby, it’s got to be through a legislative fix. Today, my Democratic colleagues and I are fighting to do what the Supreme Court failed to do: to protect the basic rights of American women and families.<\/p>\n

Led by Senators Patty Murray and Mark Udall, we’ve just introduced a new bill \u2013 the Protect Women’s Health from Corporate Interference Act.<\/p>\n

The bill reverses the Supreme Court’s decision by making it clear that employers cannot deny access to any of the health benefits required by the ACA \u2013 not immunizations, not blood transfusions, not HIV treatments, and not birth control \u2013 while preserving reasonable accommodations for religiously exempt employers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s about time we had a bunch of progressive Senators who did not give up just because there was a minor setback.\u00a0 They are starting to realize that you can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.\u00a0 The way you do it is\u00a0 to use the opposition’s tactical advances against them.\u00a0 They may have won 5 votes in the Supreme Court, but they haven’t seen how many votes they will lose in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An email from Elizabeth Warren sent me to her web page, Fight back against Hobby Lobby: Support the Protect Women’s Health from Corporate Interference Act. If we’re going to respond to Hobby Lobby, it’s got to be through a legislative fix. Today, my Democratic colleagues and I are fighting to do what the Supreme Court […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17756,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17755\/revisions\/17756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}