Third Circuit rules business cannot challenge birth control mandate

[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Friday that family-owned, profit-making businesses cannot challenge the new federal health care law's birth control mandate on religious grounds. Conestoga Wood Specialties, a Pennsylvania company with 950 employees, maintains a policy not to support "anything that terminates a fertilized embryo." The company objected to the provision of the mandate requiring employers to provide contraceptive coverage to employees, including the "morning-after pill," known as Plan-B Onestep...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/07/third-circuit-rules-business-cannot-challenge-birth-control-mandate.php

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