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Washington Post - Some Business Owners Resist Providing Abortion Pill Coverage

May 23, 2013

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By Robert Barnes, WashingtonPost.com

Religiously devout business owners are waging a broad rebellion against providing their employees with contraceptive coverage, bringing dozens of lawsuits that seem certain to land the issue before the Supreme Court.

The company owners say their religious beliefs take precedence over a new federal requirement, contained in President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, that they give employees insurance that covers contraceptives. . . .

Cyril and Jane Korte, who own the privately held construction company, have vowed to run the business in concert with their Catholic beliefs, according to their lawyer, Edward L. White III. White is a senior counsel at the American Center for Law and Justice, one of several groups representing business owners in the lawsuits. . . .

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