Sun Chung

“It bears noting that the cost of an IUD is nearly equivalent to a month’s full-time pay for workers on the minimum wage.” —GINSBURG, dissenting.

There’s no court like the highest court in the land to toy with our emotions. Not since the SCOTUS’s evisceration of DOMA in Windsor have the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr transformed into a feeding frenzy of ad-hoc Tweeter-turned-legal analysts as when the Court issued its ruling on a company’s “religious freedom” (I didn’t realize that corporations had souls that needed saving) pitted against a woman’s right to paid contraceptives. However, while Windsor sparked tears of joy in many (a good friend sat quietly at his desk that morning and wept over a copy of the opinion), Hobby Lobby inspires an altogether different breed of bodily discharge (e.g., terror-induced sweat or bile come immediately to mind).

Today, a friend—a good friend, mind you—posted a link to an article in the National Review, which attempts to call bullshit on the “Left’s fantasy world.” Touting that the nefarious Hobby Lobby “actually lavishes contraception coverage for its employees” (did anyone else picture Mr. Hobby Lobby presenting female employees with velvet jewelry boxes containing birth control pills? Or was that just me?), the author concludes that “Liberals are living in a cartoon of their own making.”

Indeed, Hobby Lobby’s insurance plan pays for up to 16 different kinds of contraceptives, including condoms, diaphragms (which, according to Seinfeld, are obsolete), birth ...