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            Supreme Court Considers Obamacare Birth Control Mandate

   The U.S. Supreme Court heard a case Wednesday that found them deeply
   divided over a familiar topic: contraceptive health care.

   With the death of Justice Anthony Scalia, the court has only eight
   judges to hear the case, four of whom usually lean to the liberal side
   and four to the conservative.

   The justices heard about 90 minutes of oral arguments Wednesday on how
   women who work for religiously affiliated institutions that object to
   birth control can access contraceptives through their health insurance.

   The court ruled in previous years that, under the U.S. health care act
   known as Obamacare, such institutions can be exempted from covering the
   cost of birth control for their employees, leaving the cost instead to
   the government and insurance providers. Now such institutions are
   challenging the part of the law that requires them to allow their
   insurers to pay for contraception.

   If the court remains split four-to-four between liberals and
   conservatives, the question will remain unresolved and could come
   before the court again in the years to come. Meanwhile, a patchwork of
   federal court rulings on the matter will remain in place rather than a
   uniform national policy.
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