CHRISTIANSBURG (WSLS) - All across the New River Valley, businesses will have the option to provide birth control as a form of healthcare.
This comes after the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 which means the Obama Administration will have to find another way for women to have health care coverage that includes birth control.
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"I respect their perspective but I don't think its my employer's role or responsibility to decide if I can or can not birth control as part of my medical insurance," Analise Adams who works in Blacksburg said.
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia are also upset with the Supreme Court Ruling.
"It's concerning that some bosses are going to be allowed to interfere with the employees access to birth control," Cianti Stewart-Reid, Planned Parenthood Spokesperson said.
In the study conducted by the "Guttmacher Institute," an organization that pushes reproduction through education shows that half of all pregnancies in Virginia in 2008 were unintended and births from pregnancies cost $319 million dollars, half was paid by the state the other half by the federal government.
United States Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) released a statement today following the decision.
"While the Court's
Hobby Lobby
decision is narrow, I believe these conversations should be between women and their doctors, not a woman and her boss. I trust the women of Virginia to make their own healthcare decisions," Warner said.
Meanwhile, United States Congressman Bob Goodlatte
(R-VA) said, "as an original co-sponsor of RFRA over two decades ago and as a supporter of liberty, I am pleased that the Court upheld the law's free exercise protection that the ‘government shall not substantially burden a person's exercise of religion.' The conscience rights of businesses led by people of faith such as Hobby Lobby are included in this definition and protected under the law as now affirmed by the Supreme Court."