Supreme Court will hear challenge to ObamaCare's contraception mandate
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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge from religious nonprofit groups to ObamaCare's contraception mandate, Politico reports. The suit applies to nonprofit religious organizations like religiously affiliated schools and charities who say that requiring them to offer birth control on their health plans violates their religious beliefs.
The court ruled last year that for-profit organizations can already refuse on religious grounds to offer contraceptive coverage to employees on their insurance plans.
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