SCOTUS Offers Obama A Way To Fix Birth Control Coverage Gap
Thanks Sam.
Hopefully the President will take your advice.
In his 5-4 majority opinion in Hobby Lobby v. Burwell on Monday, Justice Samuel Alito suggested that as one way to provide birth control coverage without running afoul of the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which imposes strict scrutiny standards for laws that burden religious practices.
"The Government could, e.g., assume the cost of providing the four contraceptives to women unable to obtain coverage due to their employers religious objections. Or it could extend the accommodation that HHS has already established for religious nonprofit organizations to non-profit employers with religious objections to the contraceptive mandate," Alito wrote for the Court. "That accommodation does not impinge on the plaintiffs' religious beliefs that providing insurance coverage for the contraceptives at issue here violates their religion and it still serves HHS's stated interests."
Thanks Sam.
Hopefully the President will take your advice.