It is an important decision because basically if they objected to it (Wheaton College, Little Sisters of the Poor) and signed it, the the TAXPAYERS would pay for abortion, etc.
SCOTUS has also kicked Obama in the groin along with many other liberals, and Planned Parenthood
Excuse my ignorance, but didn’t the Court break for Summer recess on June 30?
Maybe SCOTUS decided to CELEBRATE the 4th of July by gutting abortion aspects of Obamacare...
Wait a sec, didn’t that pro-life democrat who voted for Obamacare assure us there will be no abortion funding in it????
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Obamacare has spawned an egregious mentality of immoral entitlements.
The question I have is can women seeking such drugs from the college be fired?
6-3 isn’t as good as 9-0.
But it’s better tan 5-4.
On July 3, 2014, the SCOTUS issued an "interim order" in the case, Wheaton College v. Sylvia Burwell, et al.. The SCOTUS ordered:
If the applicant informs the Secretary of Health and Human Services in writing that it is a nonprofit organization that holds itself out as religious and has religious objections to providing coverage for contraceptive services, the respondents are enjoined from enforcing against the applicant the challenged provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and related regulations pending final disposition of appellate review. To meet the condition for injunction pending appeal, the applicant need not use the form prescribed by the Government, EBSA Form 700, and need not send copies to health insurance issuers or third-party administrators.
This case is similar to the Eternal Word Television Network, Inc. vs HHS case, before the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in which EWTN refused to submit a Form 700.
Moreover, the SCOTUS stated:
Nothing in this interim order affects the ability of the applicant’s employees and students to obtain, without cost, the full range of FDA approved contraceptives. The Government contends that the applicant’s health insurance issuer and third-party administrator are required by federal law to provide full contraceptive coverage regardless whether the applicant completes EBSA Form 700. The applicant contends, by contrast, that the obligations of its health insurance issuer and third-party administrator are dependent on their receipt of notice that the applicant objects to the contraceptive coverage requirement. But the applicant has already notified the Government—without using EBSA Form 700—that it meets the requirements for exemption from the contraceptive coverage requirement on religious grounds. Nothing in this order precludes the Government from relying on this notice, to the extent it considers it necessary, to facilitate the provision of full contraceptive coverage under the Act.
In his column, "Commentary: Is the Court’s attempt at a compromise order in Wheaton College based upon a misunderstanding of the law?," Marty Lederman, Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel, who disagrees with Court's order, states:
In other words, the Court apparently believes that its interim order will, like its resolution of Hobby Lobby on Monday, result in a “win-win” situation, in which the plaintiff does not have to do the thing that it claims would violate its religion (namely, submit Form 700), and yet its employees (and its students, too) will still be able to receive cost-free contraception coverage from the third-party administrators (TPAs) of Wheaton’s self-insured health plan: Blue Cross/Blue Shield (BC/BS) and Companion Life Insurance Co.
Lawyer Tom Goldstein agrees with the Court's order in his column, "Commentary: Why I don’t think the Court’s Wheaton College decision rests on any misunderstanding of the law."
Either way the SCOTUS opinions in the Hobby Lobby case (see section (c), p. 5) and the Wheaton College case should be rightfully condemned by pro-life organizations as pro-murder-by-abortion "kabuki theater." It makes a grand play to deny HHS taking money for abortifacients out of one employer's pocket while affirming HHS can simply take the money out of many other pockets of the same and many other pairs of pants.
The SCOTUS has demonstrated it can no longer be trusted to uphold the Constitution.