Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Supreme Court Tells Catholic Orgs: You Won't Be Breaking Faith If You Provide Access to Contraception

In an unusual ruling Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court sent a religiously based challenge to providing birth control services under Obamacare back to the lower courts, saying the Catholic institutions suing should be able to work out a compromise where their female employees can obtain needed contraception.

The court's unanimous ruling didn't take sides on the religious liberty questions that the Catholic hospitals raised. Instead they said that because women interact more directly with their health insurers over the details of their health plans than with the human resources departments providing employee benefits, that, in essence, the religious hospitals were not breaking with their faith to provide access to birth control....
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/supreme-courts-views-contraception-have-changed-drastically-just-past-year


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