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Today, the United States Supreme Court struck down the ObamaCare HHS contraception and abortion employer mandate. The Court ruled that the federal government may not force religious business owners and corporations to provide abortion-inducing drugs and devices and contraceptives to their employees. “Our responsibility is to enforce RFRA [Religious Freedom Restoration Act] as written, and under the standard RFRA prescribes, the HHS contraceptive mandate is unlawful,” the High Court ruled.

In its amicus brief, Liberty Counsel asked the Supreme Court to invalidate the so-called “Preventive Care Mandate,” which includes abortion-inducing drugs and devices. “Subjecting employers to such extortion is antithetical to the free exercise protections recognized by the First Amendment. The ObamaCare law seeking to force religious employers to promote genocide is the most outrageous assault on religious liberty and life in the history of America. President Obama and those who supported this genocide should be ashamed,” Staver said.

The Supreme Court found, “For the HHS mandate to be sustained, it must also constitute the least restrictive means of serving that interest, and the mandate plainly fails that test.” The justices ruled “protecting the free-exercise rights of corporations like Hobby Lobby, Conestoga, and Mardel protects the religious liberty of the humans who own and control these companies.”

Liberty Counsel will continue to litigate against the individual mandate that requires individuals who are part of a pool of insurance that covers abortion to pay a separate monthly fee that is used to fund abortions. The individual abortion mandate was not part of today’s ruling.
 

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