MassLive: Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey join Democrats in pushing bill to address Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling granting religious exemptions to health care law
WASHINGTON — In the wake of the Supreme Court decision granting companies the right to cite religious beliefs in denying health insurance coverage for things like birth control, Democrats in the U.S. Senate are wasting no time fighting back.
On Wednesday, the Protect Women’s Health from Corporate Interference Act introduced in the Senate was co-sponsored by dozens of Democrats including Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, both of Massachusetts. The bill goes head-on with the Court’s ruling in a case where the Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby chain of arts-and-craft stores challenged a requirement in President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act mandating companies insurance plans include access to contraceptives.
