Here’s where EWTN is getting it wrong:
“As an organization that was founded by Mother Angelica to uphold the teachings of the Catholic Church, we do not believe...”
Their argument against “contraception, abortion-inducing drugs and voluntary sterilization” being characterized as “health care” has to be asserted as a clash between new legislation and pre-existing, Constitutionally protected rights, not predicated on their identity.
They should have asserted plainly, “Our Constitutionally protected practice of religion rejects contraception, abortion-inducing drugs and voluntary sterilization as morally reprehensible. The mandates invoked by the ACA force a conflict between compliance with the ACA, and our Constitutionally protected religious rights, in which conflict The Constitution prevails. We, therefore, stand with The Constitution in regarding the mandates that the ACA seeks to impose as unconstitutional, and in all aspects utterly null and void. We shall at no time — neither now, nor in the future — accept, or comply with, any contravention of The Constitution limiting or infringing upon our full and unmitigated access to all rights therein enumerated.”
You were quoting from a brief EWTN Website statement rather than their official/professional argument from law? What makes you think that their lawyers do not fully and correctly understand the issue and are dealing with it appropriately.