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Lambda Legal Urges Supreme Court to Reject Argument that Religious Belief Trumps Equal Access to Health Care

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February 18, 2016

Yesterday, Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Zubik v. Burwell and six related cases urging the Court to reject arguments made by religiously affiliated nonprofit organizations who argue that it burdens their religious beliefs simply to notify the federal government that they are opting out of providing their employees insurance coverage for contraceptives under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

See Also: Fair Courts Project, Health Care Fairness, Law & Policy Project, Religious Exemptions, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health, Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal Files Brief Urging U.S. Supreme Court to Protect Access to Abortion

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January 5, 2016

Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday in support of the Texas abortion clinics, physicians who perform abortions and Texas women who need abortion services, who are challenging Texas’s unduly burdensome abortion regulations in Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole.

See Also: Health Care Fairness, Law & Policy Project, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health
Commemorating the National Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV

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October 23, 2015

October 23, 2015 marks the second annual National Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV.

See Also: HIV, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health, Transgender Rights
Supreme Court Rules For-Profit Companies Can Use Religion to Ignore Some Worker Protections

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June 30, 2014

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled 5-4 that some for-profit companies can assert religious rights to block their employees’ access to group health plan coverage for FDA-approved contraception as required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).

See Also: Health Care Fairness, Religious Exemptions, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health
What to Watch for When the Supreme Court Decides the Hobby Lobby Case

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June 18, 2014

In its Citizens United ruling that corporations have free speech rights that can trump campaign finance laws, the U.S. Supreme Court essentially agreed with the worldview Mitt Romney espoused on the campaign trail: “Corporations are people, my friend.” We may soon feel further reverberations of that worldview.

See Also: Health Care Fairness, Religious Exemptions, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health
Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Case of For-Profit Companies Seeking Religious Exemption from ACA Requirements

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March 25, 2014

The U.S. Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in two cases challenging the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that FDA-approved contraception be among the basic preventive health care services included in insurance coverage for employees.

See Also: Health Care Fairness, Religious Exemptions, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health
Why Religious Exemptions to the Affordable Care Act Are an LGBT Issue

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January 30, 2014

Selling kitchen cabinets or glue guns and glitter for profit is not prayer.

See Also: Affordable Care Act, Health Care Fairness, Religious Exemptions, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health
Momentum: Fighting Religious Refusals

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December 26, 2013

“Religious refusals” of goods or services are, sadly, not a new problem for LGBT people and those living with HIV. But some who see LGBT progress as a threat are more determined than ever to make the liberty intended as a shield for worship and belief into a sword against others.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, Religious Exemptions, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health
Lambda Legal Urges NY Lawmakers to Vote on Condom Bill

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April 5, 2012

A bill under consideration by the New York state legislature would prevent police and prosecutors from using possession of condoms as evidence of prostitution and prostitution-related offenses.

See Also: HIV, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health, Transgender Rights, Youth