There are about 72 million women in the U.S. workforce (about 46%.) For many of these women [not all], their ability to participate in the “economic and social life of the nation is facilitated by their ability to control their reproductive lives (Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 1992).” I just don’t have the energy to get into never-ending debates on abortion, the legal or scientific relevance or reach of  various religious beliefs, or some parallel right of employers to opt out of laws (ObamaCare) they view incompatible with their religious beliefs. I ‘ll save that discussion for my class (PolS 356, Women and the Law).  Bottom line: insurance coverage for birth control is important to women’s health and to their prosperity.  As I get older, things just get clearer. I reject anything that increases the potential to reverse the gains women have made to compete as full citizens in social and economic life. I am a feminist, period.   Btw, I just finished re-reading Ginsburg’s dissent. I give it an A+