Supreme Court To Consider Employer Contraception Coverage

Whether employers must provide birth control under the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act – even if the company’s owners object on religious grounds – will be presented to the U.S. Supreme Court today. The Court will hear two cases seeking to overturn the ACA’s requirement that most  companies with more than 50 employees provide birth control in their employee health plans. Plaintiffs in the two cases are national craft store chain Hobby Lobby, owned by evangelical Christians, and a Mennonite-owned Pennsylvania cabinet maker called Conestoga Wood Specialties. More than 100 entities have filed similar claims, but lower courts have given temporary reprieves to see how the nation’s top court rules.