The Supreme Court ruled today that the Christian-run Hobby Lobby doesn’t have to obey the HHS mandate that is a part of Obamacare that requires businesses to pay for abortion causing drugs in their employee health care plans.
The Obama administration was attempting to make Hobby Lobby and
thousands of pro-life businesses and organizations comply with the HHS
mandate that compels religious companies to pay for birth control and
abortion-causing drugs for their employees. However, the U.S. Supreme
Court today issued a favorable ruling in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.,
a landmark case addressing the Constitutionally guaranteed rights of
business owners to operate their family companies without violating
their deeply held religious convictions.
Writing for the 5-4 majority, Justice Samuel Alitohanded down the decision for the high court, saying, “The Supreme Court
holds government can’t require closely held corporations with religious
owners to provide contraception coverage.”
“HHS’s contraception mandate substantially burdens the exercise of
religion,” the decision reads, adding that the “decision concerns only
the contraceptive mandate and should not be understood to mean that all
insurance mandates.”
