The healthcare law requires corporations to cover contraceptives such as the birth control pill. Some employers object on religious grounds. (Getty Images / January 1, 2000)
“The Obama administration set the stage Thursday for another Supreme Court showdown on the president’s healthcare law, this time to decide whether for-profit companies can be forced to provide full contraceptive coverage for their employees despite religious objections from their owners.”
The Los Angeles Times‘ David G. Savage reports on the U.S. Solicitor General’s request that the Supreme Court take up the question of whether private companies like the Hobby Lobby can claim a 1st Amendment’s protection for the “free exercise of religion” to exempt themselves from the law.