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Catholic Group Loses Birth Control Appeal

Date: October 4, 2004
Author: Gina Holland
QUOTE: The US Supreme Court refused Monday to disturb a ruling that forces some California religious organizations to pay for workers' contraceptive health insurance benefits.

ABSTRACT: A Catholic organization challenged the constitutionality of a California law requiring employer prescription benefit programs to include birth control pills as well. The charity argued that the law, enacted to balance prescription drug costs for women and men, violated the organization's First Amendment rights to freedom of religious expression by forcing it to pay for something it finds sinful. A lower court ruled that the organization is bound by the law because it offers secular services, and because it employs people of many religions. The Supreme Court rejected a further appeal.

--- Patrick Clark

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