--- 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 > Sponsored content. 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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)). 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