{"id":45509,"date":"2014-01-24T17:38:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T22:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=45509"},"modified":"2014-01-25T23:29:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T04:29:15","slug":"catholic-nuns-score-another-victory-against-obamacare-birth-control-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/catholic-nuns-score-another-victory-against-obamacare-birth-control-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic nuns score another victory against Obamacare birth control mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div id=\"attachment_16057\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16057\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16057 \" alt=\"The Supreme Court at sunset\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Supreme-Court-Sunset-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The United States Supreme Court.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Friday afternoon came with a victory for the Little Sisters, the group of Roman Catholic nuns who filed suit against the Obamacare birth control mandate.\u00a0 The <a href=\"If the employer applicants inform the Secretary of Health and Human Services in writing that they are non-profit organizations that hold themselves out as religious and have religious objections to providing coverage for contraceptive services, the respondents are enjoined from enforcing against the applicants the challenged provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and related regulations pending final disposition of the appeal by the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. To meet the condition for injunction pending appeal, applicants need not use the form prescribed by the Government and need not send copies to third-party administrators. The Court issues this order based on all of the circumstances of the case, and this order should not be construed as an expression of the Court\u2019s views on the merits.\" target=\"_blank\">order handed down today<\/a> in the case of <em>Little Sisters of the Poor v. Sebelius<\/em> (application 13A691), was issued without any notes of dissent from the Supreme Court. It says that the Little Sisters do not have to file the government form claiming an exemption, a matter they argued would make them complicit in the abortion aspects of the mandate.<\/p>\n<p>The report from the court blog says that, &#8220;If a religious group objects to those services, as the Little Sisters order does, it is required to file a form \u2013\u00a0 EBSA Form 700 \u2014 claiming an exemption.\u00a0 The Little Sisters told the Supreme Court that even filing that form would make them a part of the scheme, and thus draw them into support for abortions or abortion-related services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2014\/01\/partial-win-for-little-sisters\/#more-204437\" target=\"_blank\">Court blog notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If the Little Sisters do make that substitute kind of notification, then the government, under the order, is barred from enforcing the mandate against them.\u00a0\u00a0 At no point in the case as it moves forward, the order stressed, are the Little Sisters required to file Form 700 with the government, or to send copies of it to the separate entity that operates their employee health benefit plan.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Though seemingly a technicality,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Litttle-Sisters-order-1-24-13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the order<\/a> is a strong reminder that deeply held religious convictions are deep enough in some to fight the letter of the law when it violates the spirit of their faith.<\/p>\n<p>The Little Sisters have made it clear that it is more important to them to live with a free conscience before the God they have vowed to serve that simply fill out what they see as complicit paperwork in a scheme to further abortion in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The temporary victory will remain in effect for the group until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, based in\u00a0Denver rules on their case.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Court blog states that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The &#8216;contraceptive mandate&#8217; has been challenged in dozens of lawsuits across the country, by both religious entities like the Little Sisters, and profit-making business firms whose owners object, for religious reasons, to providing some of the ACA-mandated services for their workers.\u00a0 The Court is reviewing the mandate this Term, as it applies to business firms.\u00a0 It has not yet taken on for full review a case involving a religious entity.\u00a0 Its order Friday marked the first time it had faced that part of the widespread controversy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The case of forced contraception, including abortifacient contraception, is far from over&#8211;as evidenced by a group of nuns with a childlike name and warrior spirit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday afternoon came with a victory for the Little Sisters, the group of Roman Catholic nuns who filed suit against the Obamacare birth control mandate.\u00a0 The order handed down today in the case of Little Sisters of the Poor v. 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