BANGOR — Women and men stood on the sidewalk in front of Hobby Lobby Saturday morning holding signs that read: “My body is not your hobby,” “Control the boardroom, not the bedroom” and “Life, liberty and reproductive freedom,” amongst others. The group of about 50, organized by the Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Center, stood together […]
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Pingree backs bill meant to counter Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision
AUGUSTA — Democratic U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree announced Wednesday that she is backing a bill in Congress that would reverse last month’s Hobby Lobby decision by the U.S. Supreme Court and bar employers from denying female employees reproductive health coverage. Isaac Misiuk, Pingree’s Republican opponent in the November election, said the issue is a distraction […]
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Rich Lowry: Leftists up in arms over Supreme Court ruling
It has long been suspected that the Supreme Court hates women, although it took the court’s 5-4 decision in the Hobby Lobby case to fully reveal its blatant misogyny. The court held that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act forbids the administration from forcing Hobby Lobby — an arts-and-crafts chain owned by evangelical Christians — to […]
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P.T. Sawyer: A matter of choices
I am writing to urge American women not to be apathetic in the face of threatened erosion of their reproductive rights, especially in light of the June 30 Supreme Court ruling on a case brought against Hobby Lobby. Please let me introduce myself: I am not an activist or even politically well informed. But I […]
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Hobby Lobby coming to Auburn
AUBURN — National craft and home decor chain Hobby Lobby will open a retail store near Kohl’s, Petco and Starbucks at 65 Mount Auburn Ave. this fall. Crews for the company have begun site preparations to build the 55,000 square foot store this summer. Consultant Michael Gotto said the project is awaiting approval from Auburn’s […]