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With all of the practical ObamaCare disasters in the news the last few weeks, we need to still keep an eye on the threat it represents to religious liberty and free expression. Thankfully, yet another federal court has recognized those dangers inherent in the HHS contraception mandate issued as part of the regulatory scheme implementing the Affordable Care Act:
Catholic dioceses, non-profits in PA win injunction against HHS contraception mandate « Hot Air
With all of the practical ObamaCare disasters in the news the last few weeks, we need to still keep an eye on the threat it represents to religious liberty and free expression. Thankfully, yet another federal court has recognized those dangers inherent in the HHS contraception mandate issued as part of the regulatory scheme implementing the Affordable Care Act:
The right of church-related organizations to keep a clear conscience trumps the federal governments desire to improve access to contraceptives, a federal judge ruled Thursday in a preliminary decision that could set the tone in a legal fight of national scope.
U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab granted an injunction sought by the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, Diocese of Erie and several affiliated nonprofit groups that do not want their insurance administrators to provide what they call preventive services coverage.
The injunction allows them to continue to offer insurance that doesnt include contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs while litigation continues. Without the injunction, the insurance administrators for the organizations though not the dioceses themselves would have had to start providing the coverage Jan. 1.
This is not just a philosophical victory, either. An adverse ruling could have cost Catholic Charities $2 million a year in fines, and forced the venerable institution to start laying off workers as a result.."U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab granted an injunction sought by the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, Diocese of Erie and several affiliated nonprofit groups that do not want their insurance administrators to provide what they call preventive services coverage.
The injunction allows them to continue to offer insurance that doesnt include contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs while litigation continues. Without the injunction, the insurance administrators for the organizations though not the dioceses themselves would have had to start providing the coverage Jan. 1.
Catholic dioceses, non-profits in PA win injunction against HHS contraception mandate « Hot Air
