The Wall Street Journal has published a short but helpful overview of the many lawsuits that have been filed over ObamaCare’s trampling of religious freedom.
This spring, the Supreme Court will consider cases brought by companies whose owners object to some of the forms of birth control that the law says has to be covered without out-of-pocket costs. The owners are arguing that their beliefs should be respected and that the Obama administration is violating a 1993 federal measure called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that says government can put burdens on a person’s exercise of religion only when that advances a “compelling governmental interest” and is “the least restrictive means of furthering” it.
The court will hear in late March the suits from Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., an Oklahoma City-based arts-and-crafts chain, and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp., an East Earl, Pa., manufacturer of kitchen-cabinet doors. The two cases have been consolidated into a single argument after appellate courts reached different conclusions. Their owners are evangelical Christians and Mennonites, respectively, and chiefly object specifically to the so-called morning-after pill, which they consider to be a form of abortion.
To follow the many other serious problems with ObamaCare, read the analysis of JLF’s health and human services analyst Katherine Restrepo.
