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More Than Marriage: Obergefell v. Hodges Is About Women’s Rights, Too

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At today’s U.S. Supreme Court marriage-equality arguments, the focus will be on whether the states’ marriage bans impermissibly discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. But the marriage cases also involve old-fashioned discrimination on the basis of sex.

In states without marriage equality, men can marry only women, and women can marry only men. These arguments have not received as much discussion in the cases so far, but they will be before the high court all the same. And they were discussed thoroughly by Judge Marsha Berzon in a concurring opinion in the Ninth Circuit marriage case, Latta v. Otter.

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RHNDA Rumble: Religious Groups Vow To Break D.C. Anti-Discrimination Law

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A D.C.-based coalition of organizations that oppose legal abortion has announced it will not obey the city’s Reproductive Health Anti-Discrimination Act (RHNDA). In a letter released yesterday, the groups called RHNDA “unprecedented and illegal” and said they “will continue to resist” the law.

RHNDA, passed earlier last year by the D.C. City Council, prohibits employers from firing employees based on their reproductive health-care choices. That includes the use of contraception and fertility technologies, like in-vitro fertilization, in addition to abortion. It also protects employees who become pregnant outside wedlock, an act still considered sinful by many religious groups.