From the start, everyone involved in the dispute over the Obama administration’s “contraception mandate” seemed to realize the issue would end up before the high court. The politically loaded saga prompted dozens of lawsuits, split the appeals courts and raised questions about whether a secular, for-profit company could exercise religious rights.
The cases before the court deal with the for-profit camp of plaintiffs. Unlike nonprofit employers, for-profit companies have not been given any relief from the mandate and say they are presented with an impossible choice: either violate their beliefs or pay crippling fines for flouting the mandate.
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Are they objecting to covering Viagra too? Just wondering.
According to an article in "Mother Jones" last Friday, Hobby Lobby's former health plan covered two of the three forms of contraception ("Plan B" and "Ella") the corporation now claims are morally unacceptable. Only IUD's were not covered. It was only when the Affordable Care Act became a political issue that Hobby Lobby realized that there was a problem.
Every individual in America operates for profit and has a First Amendment right, and a company should be treated equally, as it is founded by and made up of American people.
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