Written by Don Byrd
The San Francisco Chronicle’s Bob Egelko reports on the likely arguments in next year’s Supreme Court contraception mandate hearing and the potential reach of any decision in the case.
If a corporate employer can refuse on religious grounds to provide workplace insurance for contraception, what about employers with religious objections to blood transfusions or vaccinations? Or those who believe in healing by prayer?
Those questions lurk below the surface of the challenge the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review to regulations in the new federal health care law requiring employers to make contraceptive coverage available to their employees. That mandate, two groups of corporate owners argue, violates their freedom of religion.
The Court has set a January 28 deadline for amicus briefs in the contraception cases. Stay tuned.
