--- title: Supreme Court Hobby Lobby Contraception: Ginsburg Dissent as a Song description: "It bares note that the cost of an IUD is nearly equivalent to a month's full-time pay for workers making minimum wage." canonical: https://time.com/2946173/justice-ginsburgs-hobby-lobby-dissent-gets-its-own-song/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-01T17:26:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:35.278Z og:title: Supreme Court Hobby Lobby Contraception: Ginsburg Dissent as a Song og:description: "It bears note that the cost of an IUD is nearly equivalent to a month's full-time pay for workers making minimum wage." og:url: https://time.com/2946173/justice-ginsburgs-hobby-lobby-dissent-gets-its-own-song/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Supreme Court Hobby Lobby Contraception: Ginsburg Dissent as a Song twitter:description: "It bears note that the cost of an IUD is nearly equivalent to a month's full-time pay for workers making minimum wage." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Justice Ginsburg's Hobby Lobby Dissent Gets Its Own Song  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Jul 1, 2014 5:26 PM UTC  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Jul 1, 2014 5:26 PM UTC Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a 35-page dissent to Monday’s ruling on the Hobby Lobby case, arguing that “the exemption sought by Hobby Lobby and Conestoga would…deny legions of women who do not hold their employers’ beliefs access to contraceptive coverage.” But if you don’t have the time to read all that analysis, singer [Jonathan Mann](http://jonathanmann.net/) has distilled the main points into a song that’s just over two minutes long. Beware, Mann took some creative liberties: Ginsberg didn’t really call her colleagues “slut-shaming geezers.” But most of the lines are drawn directly from her dissent (which can be read in full [here](http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354%5Folp1.pdf)). (And if you want to learn more about the reaction to the ruling, you can find [TIME’s full coverage here](http://time.com/2941323/supreme-court-contraception-ruling-hobby-lobby/).) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2946173/justice-ginsburgs-hobby-lobby-dissent-gets-its-own-song/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2946173/justice-ginsburgs-hobby-lobby-dissent-gets-its-own-song/"},"headline":"Justice Ginsburg's Hobby Lobby Dissent Gets Its Own Song","datePublished":"2014-07-01T17:26:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:35.278Z","description":"\"It bears note that the cost of an IUD is nearly equivalent to a month's full-time pay for workers making minimum wage.\"","url":"https://time.com/2946173/justice-ginsburgs-hobby-lobby-dissent-gets-its-own-song/","keywords":["Living","Supreme Court","politics","Internet","hobby lobby","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2946173/justice-ginsburgs-hobby-lobby-dissent-gets-its-own-song/","name":"Justice Ginsburg's Hobby Lobby Dissent Gets Its Own Song"}}]}] ```