Supreme Court accepts challenge to health law’s contraceptive mandate

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17. It's likely that if the plaintiff could dictate the terms of everyone's policies,

contraception for women would not be on the list, just is it already provides nothing for men. However, what they will settle for are opt-out provisions applying only to the policies they provide to their employees.

In the Hobby Lobby case, plaintiff objected to some of the mandated contraceptive methods, the ones that effectively terminate a pregnancy rather than prevent one. Hobby Lobby filed no objections to methods that prevented conception.

Given that there is not just legal precedent, but that the precedent is very recent, the court most likely will overturn the administration's mandate because there are no shortage of ways the government can provide contraceptive coverage directly, without involving the plaintiff. That would meet legal requirements for finding a solution that is least restrictive as required by the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.