2/27/12: Seven States Challenge So-Called “Contraception” Mandate

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Seven states filed a lawsuit last week to block the federal government’s requirement that religious organizations offer health insurance coverage that includes free access to contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs for women.

The attorneys general of Texas, Florida, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Carolina jointly filed the lawsuit in a Nebraska US District Court. Two private citizens, two religious non-profit organizations and a Catholic school also joined the lawsuit against the so-called ‘contraception mandate’.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said in a statement, “The president’s so called ‘accommodation’ was nothing but a shell game: the mandate still requires religious organizations to subsidize and authorize conduct that conflicts with their religious principles.”