University of Notre Dame files lawsuit against Obama Care:
The University of Notre Dame, on Tuesday, filed another lawsuit opposing portions of the Obama Care that forces it to provide health insurance for students and employees that includes birth control, saying it contravenes the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.
The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in South Bend claims the Affordable Health Care Act violates Notre Dame's freedom to practice religion without government interference. Under the law, employers must provide insurance that covers a range of preventive care, free of charge, including contraception. The Catholic Church prohibits the use of contraceptives.
Although Obama administration made a compromise, to exempt Catholic Universities, religious hospitals and organizations, by transferring the responsibility to the insurer or third party, it is considered as a crooked measure by many religious groups. The compromise measure requires insurers or the health plan's outside administrator to pay for birth control coverage and creates a way to reimburse them.
Rev. John Jenkins, the president of Notre Dame said in a statement, "the government's accommodations would require us to forfeit our rights, to facilitate and become entangled in a program inconsistent with Catholic teaching and to create the impression that the university cooperates with and condones activities incompatible with its mission,".
Recently, a federal judge in Pennsylvania granted the Pittsburgh and Erie Catholic dioceses a delay in complying with the federal mandates.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to consider two cases in which business have objected to covering birth control for employees on religious grounds. Hobby Lobby, a Christian-owned arts and crafts chain with 13,000 full-time employees, won its case in lower courts, while Conestoga Wood Specialties, a Mennonite-owned company that employs 950 people in making wood cabinets, lost its claims in lower courts.
More and more businesses, non-profit organizations and for-profit organizations are filing lawsuits for their exemption on grounds of religious faith and principles.
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