More on the Hobby Lobby Case | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: There are three additional points. The first is that all preventative care insurance provides contraception anyway and has since the EEOC mandated it in December 2000.
The second is that saying that the pre-implantation blastocyst is an individual rather than a potential human life is outside the bounds of good science - which shows it starts at gastrulation. Anything else is simply belief. If the Catholic Church still believed that the Earth was the center of the universe, Catholic employers could not be privileged to not pay property taxes to support public schools who teach the contrary. In natural law reasoning, which Caholic doctrine proports us use, natural sciece must have an input - so far not so much on contraception.
Third, because the care employees and employers receive is tax subsidized, having employers as agents of the government prohibit contraception is simply a way to partially revoke Griswold v. Connecticut (and do an end run around the privacy rights of female employeess - which is why Roe is implicated). While the Church and its pro-life lobby are salivating at the prospect of an attack on privacy, such a finding would be tragic for employee and individual rights and bring us back toward a more hierarchist socieity. The Church and capitalists would like that but most Americans would not. Let us hope the Court votes for individual freedom this time out rather than freedom for institutions.
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