Sentences with phrase «on the contraceptive mandate»

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The Obama Admininstration has submitted its response (available here) to the lawsuit that the Becket Fund filed on behalf of Belmont Abbey College in the matter of the contraceptive mandate.

• Speaking before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in mid-February, our friend Rabbi Meir Soloveichik protested the Obama administration's now infamous assault on religious freedom in the contraceptive mandate.

A federal judge denied Hobby Lobby's request for an injunction against the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) contraceptive mandate on Monday, ruling that the arts - and - crafts giant must cover emergency contraceptives in its insurance policies even though it believes the pills cause abortions.

Under the order, organizations fighting the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate on religious grounds, including the Little Sisters of the Poor, would be granted accommodations.

In 2014, when Obamacare came before the Supreme Court via the Hobby Lobby case, the court ruled 5 — 4 that employers who objected to the contraceptive mandate on religious grounds didn't have to offer birth control directly to female employees.

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

The government mandate covers all forms of FDA approved contraceptives and the administration has said time and again they felt the policy and its exceptions «struck the right balance» on religious freedoms and providing health care for people who need it.

If I understand him correctly, he believes that by making rational arguments we can see, for example, that the owners of Hobby Lobby, the Greens, are not asking for an exemption, but demonstrating why the contraceptive mandate is not a law, and is therefore not binding on anyone.

On Tuesday, Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey College won a legal round against the HHS contraceptive mandate not only for themselves, but for all fellow plaintiffs as a D.C. appeals court prompted the Obama administration to promise not to enforce the mandate (as currently written) and — on top of that — regularly report on its progress toward new rules that better protect religious freedoOn Tuesday, Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey College won a legal round against the HHS contraceptive mandate not only for themselves, but for all fellow plaintiffs as a D.C. appeals court prompted the Obama administration to promise not to enforce the mandate (as currently written) and — on top of that — regularly report on its progress toward new rules that better protect religious freedoon top of that — regularly report on its progress toward new rules that better protect religious freedoon its progress toward new rules that better protect religious freedom.

You get the Obama administration's contraceptive / abortifacient mandate on steroids and a full - scale legal assault by Clinton Administration 3.0 on the capacity of religious institutions to be themselves as they understand themselves to be: communities of religious conviction with a right to their own moral integrity, not mere instruments for delivering whatever the government deems to be a public service or a public good.

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«After five losses in a row at the Supreme Court regarding the ill - starred contraceptive mandate, it is time for the Department of Justice to move on, and to allow the court, the universities, and other religious ministries to move on as well.»

The White House seems to have assuaged the concerns of liberal and moderate religious voices, particularly Catholics, who complained that the U.S. Health and Human Services mandate on contraceptive coverage violated religious freedom of conscience.

The first mandate approved by the Assembly this year, dubbed the Comprehensive Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2017, passed by a vote of 103 - 43 on January 17, just six days after it was proposed by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Two provisions do represent a change from the status quo, however: the mandate for providing a 12 months» supply of contraceptive drugs, and the ban on copayments for abortion.

The mandate for contraceptive coverage is part of the Affordable Care Act, which Republicans in Congress so far have failed to repeal or at the very least overhaul on narrow grounds.

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined «Obamacare: Supreme Court hands nuns temporary victory on contraceptives; The Supreme Court blocked enforcement of Obamacare's contraceptive mandate and said the nuns were not required to use the procedure set up by the government as an accommodation for religious groups.»

For several years, Arizona had allowed only churches to opt out of the state's contraceptive coverage mandate; in 2012, it expanded the exemption to permit any employer or plan enrollee to opt out based on their religious belief.