The Affordable Care Act requires that various preventive services, including “[a]ll [FDA-] approved contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling for all women with reproductive capacity,” be provided free of cost.
On June 30, a 5-4 majority of the United States Supreme Court, in Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. v. Burwell, held that closely-held for-profit corporations need not provide coverage for female contraceptive services if their owners sincerely believe that to “facilitate” such contraceptive use would violate their personal religious tenets.
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