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Birth Control Works3/27/2014 5:01:01 am PDT

re: #122 Lidane

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So basically, Roberts is trying to thread the needle here. He seems to want to create an exemption for a privately held company with a small, core group of investors. Once you’re a larger corporation or a publicly traded company, however, that’s it. The “religious freedom” argument would no longer apply. In practice, this would mean that companies like Koch Industries, Hobby Lobby, and Chik-Fil-A could deny birth control coverage to their employees since they’re all private, but Walmart, Papa John’s, and Domino’s Pizza could not, at least not without buying back all their shares first.

I don’t know. I think the # of employees has to be considered. Ventures as large at the Koch Industries would be too powerful, IMHO.
An exemption like that would be interesting if it actually happened, especially in terms of future recruitment and/or retention of female employees.