Next month, the Supreme Court will hear the most important abortion case in decades. Like the recent anti-gay law vetoed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, it turns on the meaning of the term “religious liberty.”
The case — actually a consolidation of two similar cases, Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius and Conestoga Wood v. Sebelius — comes in the wake of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Among the myriad provisions of the ACA, the Department of Health and Human Services required that corporations include coverage for contraception in the health plans they offer their employees.
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