This decision will only make life harder for the very people who are keeping our economy afloat during this pandemic and fighting in the streets for the right to control their bodies and lives," the statement said. Restrictions like this target Black and Latinx people who are more likely to be low income and for whom basic health care has always remained out of reach, because of historic and continued underinvestment in access to affordable care. "The dual public health crises of COVID-19 and systemic racism and violence are pushing people, our health care system, and our economy beyond their limits, and yet today, the Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to make essential health care even more difficult to access. In a statement at the time, Planned Parenthood Action Fund president and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson called the ruling "egregious" and said that it would continue fighting for birth control access. In the case, The Little Sisters of the Poor sought exemption from part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which would "mandate that health plans provide coverage for all Food and Drug Administration approved contraceptive methods." The Supreme Court ruled that organizations could opt out of the ACA requirement to provide contraceptive care for religious and moral reasons. The Little Sisters of the Poor, our Catholic Convent of nuns, who take oaths of poverty, who devote their lives to caring for the sick, caring for the needy, caring for the elderly, and the Obama administration litigated against the little sisters of the poor, seeking to fine them in order to force them to pay for abortion-inducing drugs among others," he said during his lengthy address at the hearings. The Texas senator referred to birth control as such when discussing assumed threats on religious freedom, referencing the Supreme Court case of The Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Reproductive health care nonprofit Planned Parenthood corrected comments made by Senator Ted Cruz during Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, where he referred to birth control pills as "abortion inducing drugs."
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