Sessions Religious Liberty Task Force

[Trebuchet]

I think it's a reference to Little Sisters Of The Poor, included in Zubik v. Burwell. It's not just that they refused to pay for insurance that would have provided contraceptive coverage for their employees, they refused even to fill out a form which would notify HHS of their religious objection, since filling out that form would have allowed the "insurance company [to] then provide the contraceptive coverage directly to employees without any involvement of the employer, including any distribution of literature or extra payments by the employer." To their infinitely elastic consciences, that would still have made them complicit in their employees' sin of contraception. (It seems "holier than thou" is quite the burden)


The Supreme Court basically punted on the issue; I don't know how it was finally resolved, but I doubt very seriously any nuns were ever actually made to pay for contraception.

Thanks, that's the one.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

I'm going to have to look for that, but IIRC they are trying to take Hobby Lobby one step farther by not only not paying for contraception in their employees' health plans, but not allowing the employees to pay for the coverage either.

The Hobby Lobby, case was a private corporation objecting to certain abortion inducing forms of contraception like Plan B. The ACA allowed churches themselves to decline the birth control coverage for employees but not businesses the church owned. In the case of Hobby Lobby, the owners sued for the personal right to religious freedom, not offering abortive contraception.

The nuns lost their case but it was different. All they had to do was sign a paper and the insurance company would have to use other money to provide the birth control. The nuns objected to signing the paper. Nuns Lose Case Against Birth Control Mandate

The Little Sisters, which runs about 30 nursing homes around the country, sued the administration over the birth control rule because they said filling out a form for an exemption makes them complicit in the provision of birth control coverage, even if they don’t have to pay for or provide it.

But fear not ye God followers, Trump reversed that ACA requirement.


Turingtest types faster than I do.

 

[cullennz]

Too much doublespeak from the church "ethics" directors (and the Bishop)... nauseating.

I think old Ehrich should be blaming his own rules, and not the nuns, who frankly went up a bit on my respecto-meter

Catholic health care ethical religious directives

47. Operations, treatments, and medications that have as their direct purpose the cure of a proportionately serious pathological condition of a pregnant woman are permitted when they cannot be safely postponed until the unborn child is viable, even if they will result in the death of the unborn child.