Why Is the Future of Birth Control In the Hands of the Supreme Court?

[DonViejo]

Stuart Taylor, Jr.

Christian-owned businesses face huge fines for refusing to include certain types of contraception in their health plans. And they won’t go down without a fight.

The Affordable Care Act, which the Supreme Court partially upheld in 2012 when it issued one of the most important decisions in decades, has spawned more litigation—topped by two consolidated cases that could become the justices’ biggest ruling on religious liberty in years.

The oral arguments regarding the law’s contraception coverage mandate, slated for March 25, will be a rematch between two lawyers who squared off in the first health law challenge—Obama administration Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. and former Bush administration Solicitor General Paul Clement.

The key question is this: can privately owned businesses be hit with crippling fines of $100 per day, per worker if their devoutly Christian owners refuse on religious grounds to include in their health plans four contraceptive methods that they equate with abortion?

The cases, Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores and Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Sebelius, are the leading edge of more than 90 other related, pending suits filed around the country by Catholic and other Christian plaintiffs, including hospitals, social service agencies, universities and schools, and businesses.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/20/why-is-the-future-of-birth-control-in-the-hands-of-the-supreme-court.html

[corkhead]

1. this answers your question better than I could...

[YarnAddict]

2. "The future of birth control" is NOT in the hands of the SC

Birth control will continue to be available to anyone who wants it, regardless of the outcome of this case.