Missouri college sues over contraception mandate

Monday, September 17, 2012

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The College of the Ozarks in southwest Missouri is joining opponents of the new federal health care law with its own lawsuit over the law’s birth control component.

Officials of the Christian college near Branson said they would file suit Monday in U.S. District Court in Springfield over the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act.

The federal law requires contraception coverage in employer health insurance plans. The College of the Ozarks says the requirement violates its institutional religious beliefs.

Schools such as the University of Notre Dame and The Catholic University of America have also filed federal lawsuits against the contraception mandate. The attorneys general in seven states are also pursuing legal challenges, despite a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld most of the federal law.

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spelchek 8 months, 1 week ago

What constitution?

Paroquet 8 months, 1 week ago

That one that says something about no establishment of religion. Nobody is forcing anybody to utilize the coverage, and HIPA says it's none of your business if they do. Somebody is trying to make it so the coverage is unavailable to you, even if you desire it, which is nobody's business but your own.

Some people just can't accept that a woman has more of a choice about what should happen inside her body than they believe she should.

Let's bar heart medications and other critical to life treatments for illness or injury. After all, it's God's will you're thwarting when you prolong your life. I just can't abide that under any circumstances.

Holy enough for you?

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