Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Male Justices Didn’t Really Understand Hobby Lobby

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Male Justices Didn’t Really Understand Hobby Lobby (Mediaite)

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsbergbecame an even bigger hero on the left last month when she delivered a scathing dissent to the 5-4 decision in favor of Hobby Lobby, which is now exempt from providing certain types of birth control to its employees based on its founder’s religious beliefs. This week, she sat down for an extended interview with Yahoo News’ Katie Couric to explain why she found the decision so damaging.

“Contraceptive protection is something that every woman must have access to in order to control her own destiny,” Ginsburg told Couric. While she said she “respects the belief” of the Hobby Lobby owners, she added, “they have no constitutional right to force that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work them who don’t share that belief.”