Missouri college challenges federal health care law

[pstokely]

Source: STL Post Dispatch

JEFFERSON CITY • Missouri’s College of the Ozarks has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a provision of the Affordable Care Act that would require its employee health plan to cover abortion services and certain types of contraception, including the morning-after pill.

Leaders of the Presbyterian liberal arts college located near Branson say the mandate violates the school’s institutional religious beliefs.

“The mandate chills the college's religious exercise by exposing the college to substantial fines for its religious beliefs and exercise of those beliefs,” the lawsuit states. “The mandate's required provision of insurance coverage for education and counseling concerning elective abortions and abortifacient drugs compels the college to speak in a manner contrary to its religious beliefs.”

The college is seeking an order that will protect it from enforcement of the requirement, as well as court costs.

Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/political-fix/missouri-college-challenges-federal-health-care-law/article_205415a0-00e2-11e2-81c1-0019bb30f31a.html

[mike_c]

1. as opposed to its religious believers simply not using those services....

Sheesh.

[still_one]

2. I think it is time that religious institutions lose their tax exempt status

[Blue_Tires]

3. It's clear the RW don't have any answers to the ACA

other than keep it in perpetual lawsuit limbo...

[drm604]

4. I am getting so fed up with this nonsense.

[Blue Idaho]

5. College of the Ozarks tuition increases 19,000%

Hey they have to pay for those fancy constitutional lawyers somehow - right?

[Smilo]

6. Because in Missouri

we likes r women folk bare foot and pregnant.

These people are pathetic and ignorant - no one is forcing anybody to utilize the coverage.

[lastlib]

7. Since when does an INSTITUTION have beliefs?!?!??

Institutions are NOT people!!! (Are you listening, Mitt??) They have NO conscience, NO opinions, NO religion!! These are PERSONAL, INDIVIDUAL things possessed only by corporeal sentient beings--HUMANS!! What right do these creatures have to try to impose their "beliefs" on the decisions of REAL people???

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