Over the last four years, since the Affordable Care Act became law, we’ve seen the law begin to work for women and our families. At our urging, Congress had decided that health plans should cover preventive care without imposing financial barriers that force people to postpone or skip getting the services they need to stay healthy. When the nation’s leading medical experts at the Institute of Medicine determined that contraceptive care is a core part of preventive care for women, the government did what the law said it should and required insurance companies to cover contraception without copays.Last year, women filled 24 million additional birth control prescriptions with no co-pay, saving an estimated $483 million.The five male justices who issued yesterday’s ruling suggested that employees of corporations like Hobby Lobby could still get contraceptive coverage -- either by having the government pay for it or by granting those businesses the same accommodation already provided to non-profit religiously-affiliated organizations. That accommodation shifts the burden of providing contraceptive coverage from the employer to the insurance company.The accommodation itself is under attack in a separate line of court challenges by religiously-affiliated nonprofits like the Little Sisters of the Poor nursing home chain. They claim that even filling out a form registering their objections to contraception, and thus shifting the coverage burden to their insurance companies, violates their religious freedom. Moreover, the idea of expanding government spending to provide contraceptive coverage to working women who are not low income may not go far in a House of Representatives with many Tea Party activists.Suppose an employer's sincerely held religious belief is offended by health coverage of vaccines or paying the minimum wage [...] or according women equal pay for substantially similar work?"Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington state, vowed that “Since the Supreme Court decided it will not protect women’s access to health care, I will.” Murray said she would “work with my colleagues and the administration to protect this access, regardless of who signs your paycheck.”The White House issued a clear statement:It was unclear, however, exactly what method the President or Murray and her Democratic colleagues in Congress would choose to address the harm to women from the Hobby Lobby decision. Any legislative solution would likely face opposition in the House of Representatives. The issue appears likely to become a focus in many of this year’s Congressional elections, particularly the contests that will determine political control of the Senate.One piece of good news has emerged, however.The reason is that the Hobby Lobby decision invokes the federal Religious Freedom Restoration, which does not apply to state laws. Two of the biggest states in this category – California and New York – have seen their contraceptive coverage statutes upheld by their states’ highest courts, which rejected challenges from religious employers. However, some other states could see challenges to their laws filed by the same groups that brought the Hobby Lobby case and are behind the separate line of lawsuits brought on behalf of religious non-profits.We will make sure the women who don’t work for employers like Hobby Lobby are getting the coverage they’re still entitled to, without letting insurance companies cut any corners. We will work with policymakers in the Congress and the Obama administration to deliver on what Congress clearly intended when it wrote the health care law -- no copay coverage for any FDA-approved contraceptive that a woman and her health care provider determine to be medically appropriate for her. We will insist that her boss gets no vote in that decision!by making a donation to our work through the contribution page of our fiscal sponsor, Community Catalyst.