Obama Administration Urges Court to Reject Nuns’ Health Law Challenge.
Source: nyt
The Obama administration urged the Supreme Court on Friday to reject a lawsuit filed by the Little Sisters of the Poor, an order of Roman Catholic nuns challenging requirements for many employers to provide health insurance coverage of birth control or face penalties under the new health care law.
The Justice Department said the requirements did not impose a “substantial burden” on the nuns’ right to practice their religion, because they could “opt out” of the obligation by certifying that they had religious objections to such coverage.
The Little Sisters “need only self-certify that they are nonprofit organizations that hold themselves out as religious and have religious objections to providing coverage for contraceptive services,” the administration said in a brief filed with the Supreme Court by the solicitor general, Donald B. Verrilli Jr.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/04/us/politics/obama-administration-urges-court-to-reject-nuns-health-law-challenge.html?hp
