Expressing Disappointment in the Court's Ruling in Hobby Lobby

WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-05) spoke out against the Court's decision to allow for-profit companies to interfere with the personal health decisions of their employees.

Below is a video and transcript of the speech.

Mr. Speaker, I thought we settled this debate decades ago.

Yet here we are, in 2014, still arguing over access to birth control for women!

According to the five-man Supreme Court majority in the Hobby Lobby case, it wasn't enough for politicians to have a say in a woman's access to healthcare, apparently their employers should have a say too!

This decision is yet another example of the constitutional rights of individual Americans being trumped by the apparent rights of corporations. So, a woman is entitled to her own religious beliefs…as long as they don't get in the way of the religious beliefs of the corporation she works for.

The Court's ruling in Hobby Lobby allows for-profit companies to interfere with the personal health decisions of their employees, opening the door for employers to discriminate against women simply seeking practical medical care.

Justice Ginsberg said it best in her scathing dissent: "the court has ventured into a minefield."

Now, it's up to Congress to find our way out…