{"id":40862,"date":"2013-11-02T22:19:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T22:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_hill_d-c-_circuit_court_of_appeals_strikes_down_mandate_for_birth_contr\/"},"modified":"2013-11-02T22:19:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T22:19:44","slug":"the_hill_d-c-_circuit_court_of_appeals_strikes_down_mandate_for_birth_contr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40862","title":{"rendered":"(The Hill) D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down mandate for birth control in ObamaCare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals \u201d\u201d the second most influential bench in the land behind the Supreme Court \u201d\u201d ruled 2-1 in favor of business owners who are fighting the requirement that they provide their employees with health insurance that covers birth control.<\/p>\n<p>Requiring companies to cover their employees\u2019 contraception, the court ruled, is unduly burdensome for business owners who oppose birth control on religious grounds, even if they are not purchasing the contraception directly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe burden on religious exercise does not occur at the point of contraceptive purchase; instead, it occurs when a company\u2019s owners fill the basket of goods and services that constitute a healthcare plan,\u201d\u009d Judge Janice Rogers Brown wrote on behalf of the court.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/regwatch\/court-battles\/188983-appeals-court-rules-against-birth-control-mandate\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals \u201d\u201d the second most influential bench in the land behind the Supreme Court \u201d\u201d ruled 2-1 in favor of business owners who are fighting the requirement that they provide their employees with health insurance<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40862\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,513,175,168,104,114,96,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}