{"id":15060,"date":"2012-08-10T13:40:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T17:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15060"},"modified":"2012-08-10T13:40:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T17:40:39","slug":"another-lawsuit-regarding-the-health-and-human-services-birth-control-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15060","title":{"rendered":"Another Lawsuit Regarding The Health And Human Services&#8217; Birth Control Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/oral-arguments-set-sept-26-case-challenging-hhs-contraception-mandate\">CNS News<\/a> reported yesterday that a court in Michigan will hear arguments against the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Presidency of Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/whitehouse.gov\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Administration&#8217;s<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Birth control\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Birth_control\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Birth Control<\/a> mandate on September 26.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The lawsuit aims to permanently block implementation of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Department of Health and Human Services\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8866666667,-77.0144444444&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8866666667,-77.0144444444%20%28United%20States%20Department%20of%20Health%20and%20Human%20Services%29&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Health and Human Services<\/a> requirement that employees and individuals to obtain insurance coverage that covers contraception, sterilization, and abortion-producing drugs without any cost-sharing. The HHS mandate imposes clear violations of conscience on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667%20%28United%20States%29&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Americans<\/a> who morally object to abortion and contraception, the Law Center (the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Thomas More Law Center\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_More_Law_Center\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas More Law Center<\/a>) said in a news release.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit also challenges the constitutionality of the HHS mandate because the mandate limits the rights of business owners to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Freedom of religion\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freedom_of_religion\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">freely practice their religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cJudge Cleland\u2019s decision to expedite the briefing schedule and set a quick hearing date for oral arguments on our motion for a preliminary injunction against the Government was crucial,&#8221; said Thomas More Law Center attorney Erin Mersino. &#8220;It best serves our goal of protecting the religious freedoms of our clients. Without the Court\u2019s timely intervention, the HHS mandate effectively penalizes their free exercise of religion,&#8221; he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The question of whether or not the HHS mandate violates the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"First Amendment to the United States Constitution\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">First Amendment<\/a> is definitely headed to the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Supreme Court of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/supreme-court\" rel=\"historycom\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court<\/a>. As I reported on July 28 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14855\">rightwinggranny.com<\/a>), a Colorado company called Hercules Industries won a court case in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Tenth_Circuit\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Tenth Circuit<\/a> regarding the HHS mandate that companies provide birth control services in the health insurance policies.<\/p>\n<p>As reported on July 28:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>A federal court issued an order Friday that halts enforcement of the <a title=\"Obama administration\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/obama-administration\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Obama administration<\/a>\u2019s abortion pill mandate against a Colorado <a title=\"Family business\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Family_business\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">family-owned business<\/a> while an Alliance Defending Freedom lawsuit challenging the mandate continues in court.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am sure there will be much more to come on this issue.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=b03227c2-8d4e-4599-b3de-02261c331c2c\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNS News reported yesterday that a court in Michigan will hear arguments against the Obama Administration&#8217;s Birth Control mandate on September 26. The article reports: The lawsuit aims to permanently block implementation of the Health and Human Services requirement that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15060\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2117,2205,1617,1290,3573,3617,135,2921,285,133],"class_list":["post-15060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birth-control","tag-first-amendment","tag-freedom-of-religion","tag-government","tag-hercules-industries","tag-hhs","tag-obama-administration","tag-thomas-more-law-center","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-department-of-health-and-human-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15063,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15060\/revisions\/15063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}