Case Study: The Little Sisters Of The Poor

Improved Essays
Do you like having the freedom to worship in whatever you believe in? Like all seven billion people on planet earth most people do not like being told what to do. In this case going against the faith of The Little Sisters of the Poor. The little sisters had sued under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act over the birth control mandate in Obama care. Obama care says that organizations had to give their employees contraceptives and the little sisters of the poor being a catholic organization that’s against their faith.
The law was made to keep people safe and gives them their rights like Amendment one it give us “the Freedom of Religion...”(US). The little sisters are fighting the law because “The accommodation discriminates among religious organization in violation of the
…show more content…
The Little Sisters of the poor is an organization that helps elderly poor around the world, they give them a home where they will be welcomed as Christ, cared for as family and accompanied with dignity until God calls them home. The little sister Loraine Marie Maguire said that “We perform this loving ministry because of our faith and simply cannot choose between our care for the elderly poor and our faith and we should not have to” (Last). They love what they do; they feel it’s what God called them to do to help and it is wrong to make them do something against their faith, like what’s in Obama care.
Under Obama care “Employers who fail to comply with the mandate face crippling penalties. In the case of the little sisters, the fines could amount to around $2.5 million a year or about 40 percent of the $6 million the sisters beg for

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    The Little Red Wagon Foundation was founded in 2005 by Zach Bonner and his mother when he was seven years old.[2][3] He founded the organization to aid poverty-stricken children. Bonner said that, "These kids don't have a home, they don't have a safe place to sleep at night. They're out on the streets not because they want to be, but because it's out of their control. "[3] Prior to establishing the organization, Bonner aided children during the aftermath of Hurricane Charley in 2004.…

    • 258 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The First Amendment states,“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” The church claims they were in dire need of a new playground for the children and the DNR offers playground scrap tire surface material grants for qualified organization, but they were turned down because they were a religious organization. During the Trinity Lutheran v. Comer case, Trinity Lutheran argued it is unconstitutional for government funding to be banned just because the occupant has religious background. The Trinity Lutheran Church is more than a church: it is a non-profit organization where kids can be cared for and express themselves.…

    • 706 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Hobby Lobby’s case argued that their right to religious freedom and beliefs were being violated. They also argued that obligating them to provide contraceptives to their employees violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). The RFRA was enacted in 1993 and requires that the government not hinder an individual’s freedom to exercise their religion unless “doing so is the least restrictive way to advance a compelling government interest” (The Economist 1-2). Hobby Lobby argued that obligating corporations to provide their employees with contraception was not the least restrictive way (NWLC…

    • 814 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Case: Alabama V. Alabama

    • 315 Words
    • 2 Pages

    A Christian woman who was told to remove her headscarf for a driver’s license photo has sued officials of Alabama county, saying her faith convicts her to cover her hair. In December last year, Yvonne Allen of Tuskegee tried to renew her driver’s license, and she was told to remove her headscarf because “only Muslim women have the right to cover their hair.” On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit on her behalf, saying the Alabama officials violated Allen’s religious rights, Christian Today details.…

    • 315 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Hobby Lobby Case Summary

    • 546 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Unlike the Supreme Court case of Hobby Lobby, asking for an accommodation for employees to have contraceptive coverage but release the employer from paying for it, Little Sisters of the Poor is requesting for an exemption from the contraceptive coverage rule, meaning their employees would not have contraceptive coverage which violates their religious belief. I think this argument of Little Sisters of Poor is little far beyond the scope, even though I am also against…

    • 546 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This statement is written in the constitution and that is the law. Now looking at both perspectives: Willock and her partner and Elane and her husband. We see Elanes point of view of refusing to do something that is against her religion. Now I 'm no lawyer, but I 'm pretty sure we have freedom of religion and speech. Understandable how Willock and her partner are upset as in their point of view they feel disrespected.…

    • 732 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Quote: “...when women are held up as models, the purpose is to support an androcentric model or structure.” (Anderson, p. 47) “Almost any object or even person can serve as a symbol: that is, serve to represent something else.” (Anderson, p. 54) “We need to re-liberate the cotton” (Elterman) “There’s a conversation about whether or not Jews can pray at their holy place” (Sharon)…

    • 999 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    However, having an exchange, or market place that provides individuals to obtain and pay, from a competitive market place, for their private insurance policies is not socialized medicine. Conversely, religious freedom has a multitude of protections provided within the care act itself. As stated in an article by Timpothy Stoltzfus "Separation anxiety: abortion funding & the Affordable Care Act. " Religious freedom is protected, the law prohibits the use of federal money be used for abortions, similarly, protecting the doctors from retaliation for refusing to perform…

    • 764 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In 1921, Margaret Sanger, and Fania Mindell, and Ethel Byrne opened America’s first birth control clinic; they were arrested for distributing “obscene materials” to their clients. Their trial led the United States to change their laws involving sex education and birth control. In 1938, their birth control clinic joined the American Birth Control League, which was renamed Planned Parenthood in 1942 because some found the original name to be offensive. They expanded their health care services in 1952, starting in India, and eventually expanded to Chile, Singapore, Sweden, and many other countries. Outlined in the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. and Related Entities: Consolidation Financial Statements and Supplementary Information…

    • 801 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I have always known that I wanted to serve in the justice system, but my interest in law school truly began in high school with experiences such as my involvement in Big Brothers Big Sisters. As a Big Sister, I learned that there are many children in the world that need an advocate to give them a voice within the system. My interest in a legal career was further piqued during my attendance at Sunflower Girls State where I was able to attend a real trial with the District Attorney and participate in mock trials. Experiences such as these both inspired and encouraged me to set my goals towards law school.…

    • 960 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Evidence from the text reads from Vile´s article that reads, ¨The Supreme Court overturned this law in ¨City of Boerne v. Flores (1997), deciding that it exceeded congressional powers under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment, granting power to enforce but not to reinterpret the provisions of that amendment. This decision has led to renewed calls for a Religious Equality Amendment, some versions of which would require that courts strike down laws with differential impacts on amendments that do not have a compelling state interest.¨ In this court case, the government was allowed to change the Fourteenth and First Amendment in their own way, except their provisions . This is what led to the organization called, the Religious…

    • 1594 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A low-class woman who lives day-to-day on a minimum wage hourly pay finds out she is pregnant. This is her first child, but she cannot afford to pay for pregnancy counseling, because she doesn’t know if she is ready to raise this child, so she goes to Planned Parenthood. Here, the doctors and technicians give her what is needed at no cost. When most people think about Planned Parenthood, they think of abortions, although this is only a small amount of services that they offer. In today’s society, Planned Parenthood is being defunded in many different states across the U.S., without people looking at the benefits.…

    • 1009 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The freedom of religion in the constitution does not encompass the ideas of religious persecutions and religious discrimination by citizens of the United States; citizens have verbally abused followers of religions. In 2014, an atheist…

    • 921 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Small family businesses are not forced to follow the mandate for the supply of birth control to employees as the larger traded corporations. From my own point of view, i personally believe that this ruling is not fair to those employees who work for them. They are technically forcing those who may want to utilize birth control to prevent a pregnancy, as well as to terminate a pregnancy before the embryo is viable due to their own belief. With that being said, there are cases where a person is personally truly not ready to have a child at the time and chooses to be a responsible individual by utilizing birth control to protect themselves and prevent such…

    • 735 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Society today has shown us that more and more families are slowly going into poverty and losing their homes because of financial problems. Jeff Madrick The Cost of Child Poverty and Alana Semuels The Resurrection of America’s Slums both agree on the fact that the human population is incapable of supporting ourselves. Both articles main points are similar to the two discussing poverty within our world and how it affects humanity and the American society.…

    • 761 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays