This week, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to the birth control mandate of the Affordable Care Act. The mandate in question requires that companies with over 50 employees must provide health insurance that covers certain contraceptive devices that some believe are abortifacients, or pay a stiff fine.
Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties challenged the mandate as a violation of the freedom of religion. The Court now must answer the questions of whether for-profit corporations can have a religious conscience and whether the birth control mandate substantially burdens the businesses’ free exercise of religion.
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