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Latest Obamacare Challenge Hits High Courts: Nuns Take on Government’s “Contraceptive Mandate”

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August 6, 2015, Bloomberg BNA

The government has fashioned an “accommodation” for those with religious objections to some or all of those contraceptive methods. But that accommodation itself is now at the heart of 56 cases with 140 plaintiffs, according to the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

Religious nonprofits—like charities and universities—say that the accommodation still makes them complicit in the provision of these religiously objectionable contraceptives

Several petitions seeking Supreme Court review have now reached the justices.

In this two-part podcast series, the Becket Fund’s Hannah Smith explains these newest Obamacare challenges.

Here’s the first podcast. And the second. Enjoy!