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         US Supreme Court to Hear Challenge on Birth Control Compromise

   by VOA News

   The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge by faith-based groups
   opposed to a government effort to ensure their employees have access to
   free birth control.

   Under the 2010 health care law insurance companies are required to
   provide contraception, unless the employer is a religious organization.

   Other faith-affiliated groups opposed to contraception are required to
   tell the government or their insurance companies they object and then
   the insurance companies, not the employer, must pay for and provide
   those employees with birth control coverage.

   Faith-based groups say they oppose having to inform their insurers or
   government of their objection to the coverage, arguing it makes them
   complicit in providing those services.

   The court will consider whether the rules violate the groups' rights
   under the religious freedom law.

   In 2014, the court ruled that American business owners with religious
   objections may deny contraceptive coverage as part of universal
   employee health insurance now required by law.

   The case involved the evangelical Christian owners of the
   arts-and-crafts chain Hobby Lobby who refused to cover certain forms of
   contraception such as the morning-after pill in their employee health
   plan, arguing that would make them complicit in abortions.

   The court ruled in a 5-4 decision.  Eight justices will be hearing
   Wednesday's case, following the death of conservative Justice Antonin
   Scalia last month.
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