Missing the Point on the Little Sisters Case | National Review

New York Times opinion columnist Gail Collins graced the paper’s opinion pages last week with this exercise in misdirection, insisting that the Little Sisters of the Poor case was an “anticontraception” effort thinly veiled (if you’ll pardon the pun) behind the pleasant faces of charitable nuns.

Collins expends little effort on getting her facts right — something that, if the Times staff is to be believed, no longer is permitted in the paper’s opinion pages. Nevertheless, she manages to make several errors in just one paragraph, asserting that, in its decision last week, the Supreme Court decided that the nuns “have the right to refuse to include birth control in their insurance policies.” In fact, the Court decided the case on procedural grounds, determining that the Trump administration may, if it wishes, offer religious exemptions to the mandate.