The reform of Donald Trump's government, which hinders access to contraception in the name of defending religious values, returns to the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Confined since mid-March because of the new coronavirus, the nine wise men will examine the file during a conference call. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the 87-year-old Dean of the Wise, will participate in the proceedings from a hospital in Baltimore, where she was admitted for gallstones.
A refusal in the name of religious convictions
The case concerns one of the flagship measures of the health insurance law of former Democratic President Barack Obama, "Obamacare", which obliged employers to cover the means of contraception of their employees in their mutuals employees. Advocates say the provision has benefited more than 56 million women who were previously not, or poorly, reimbursed for their pills or IUDs. But it was challenged in court as soon as it was adopted by conservative groups.
Seized for the first time in 2014, the Supreme Court had ruled in favor of employers who refused to pay in the name of their religious convictions. The system had then been modified so that employers who had objections only had to report them to the authorities, and it was up to the public authorities or mutuals to take over. But religious institutions, including the Little Sisters of the Poor, have once again brought justice, considering that the simple fact of notifying the authorities made them accomplices of acts which they condemn.
Between $ 600 and $ 1,000 spent per year on the pill
The file again reached in 2016 the highest court in the country which, in the absence of a judge, had split into two equal camps without ruling. After the election of Donald Trump with the support of the evangelical right in particular, his administration decided to give a wide waiver to all employers with "moral or sincere religious" objections without planning a relay this time.
In 2018, the government estimated that its exemption could deprive between 70,000 and 126,000 women of access to contraception. Without a mutual fund, a woman can pay between $ 600 and $ 1,000 a year for the pill. Courts have prevented the implementation of this reform and its future is now at stake before the temple of American law. Since entering the White House, Donald Trump has appointed two new conservative magistrates there, and these judges could tip the balance that remained in balance four years ago.
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