It’s been a month since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers can deny their workers birth control coverage on religious or moral grounds.
Under the ruling, which was decided by a 7-2 vote, as many as 125,000 women will lose previously mandated contraceptive coverage while in the middle of a triple pandemic, as the COVID-19 pandemic, an economic recession, and racism are at their peak. This decision is one of many that upholds employers’ rights to deny health-care protections to historically vulnerable communities.
As the director of HEART, a national reproductive justice organization serving Muslim communities that will inevitably be affected by this decision, I am deeply disturbed by the continued trend of vulnerable communities’ rights being ignored under the pretense of “religious freedom.”
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