On Friday the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it would capitulate to demands of Catholic and conservative Christian non-profit organizations that claimed that filling out a form would make them complicit in the provision of contraception.
The announcement was made despite the fact that the claim is still being litigated in suits filed by the Little Sisters of the Poor and Wheaton College and many legal experts had expressed skepticism that the courts would find that requiring someone to fill out a form, which after all is the raison d’être of the federal government, to qualify for the exemption to the contraception mandate was overly burdensome to their religious freedom.
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