Re: Lunelle/contraception coverage

From: Robert J Woolley (wooll005@tc.umn.edu)
Tue Jan 30 16:50:05 2001


On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Dean Huffman wrote:

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> Don't forget the 14th amendment. It gives Congress the right to legislate.

I think you are seriously misunderstanding things. Congress is given the power to pass legislation in Article 3 of the Constitution. When amendments have extended congressional power, they usually include a clause such as you cite from the 14th, to make it clear not only that a new power is being created, but in whom it is vested. Sometimes it's Congress, sometimes, "Congress and the several states, respectively."

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> Specifically referring to contraception, read Griswold v. Connecticut, 381
> U.S. 479 (1965)

Did you actually read this? If so, I'm not sure how you think it's relevant. I haven't read it in years, but my recollection is that it's the Supreme Court case where a *state* law prohibiting contraceptives was voided on the grounds that it violated privacy. How this has anything to do with Congress passing a mandate on private insurers is beyond me. Care to explain?





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