A federal appellate panel in Atlanta on Thursday rejected 2-1 separate challenges to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate, holding that requirements that religious organizations formally “opt out” of coverage does not substantially burden their religious exercise or violate their right to religious freedom.
Judge Jill Pryor of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit wrote the opinion in which U.S. Circuit Senior Judge R. Lanier Anderson concurred. Judge Gerald Tjoflat authored a 55-page dissent.
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