Journal News - Sidney Companies’ Lawsuit Challenges Federal Contraception Mandate

By Dave Larsen, Journal-News.com

An anti-abortion legal organization has filed a direct challenge to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ federal contraception mandate on behalf of two Sidney-based companies and their owners.

The Washington D.C.-based American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) this week filed a lawsuit in federal court that contends the mandate violates constitutional and statutory rights by requiring the owners of Freshway Foods and Freshway Logistics of Sidney to provide health coverage, including birth control, for their workers.

The companies’ current insurance excludes coverage for contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs, said Edward White, ACLJ senior counsel. That coverage has been offered for more than a decade, he said. . . .

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