Companies like the Mennonite-owned Conestoga Wood Specialties in East Earl, Pa., can’t be required to fund female contraceptives due to their religious objections, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in a decision that could foretell its approach to the next wave of litigation over that portion of Obamacare.
The number of cases across the country, just short of 50, filed by for-profit companies owned by religious families who object to carrying health insurance plans for their employees that include coverage of contraceptives like Plan B—as is required by the Affordable Care Act—has now been outpaced by the number of lawsuits that have been filed by religious nonprofits objecting to the method offered by the government for them to opt out of the contraceptive mandate. They now number just over 50, according to the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a conservative legal organization that has brought several of the suits.
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