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| Court Gives Nuns A Compromise On Health Care Issue Posted: 24 Jan 2014 04:54 PM PST The high court exempted them from the government form requirements, saying the nuns only have to inform HHS in “writing.” “To meet the condition for injunction pending appeal, applicants need not use the form prescribed by the government and need not send copies to third-party administrators,” the justices’ order said. Rienzi said the court’s order also will provide protection to more than 400 other Catholic organizations that receive health benefits through the same Catholic benefits provider, Christian Brothers. It’s one of the religious health care providers that is exempted from the health care law’s requirement to provide contraceptive coverage and has said all along that it will not make contraceptive coverage available. Justice Sonia Sotomayor blocked the contraceptive coverage mandate for the nuns on New Year’s Eve, only hours before portions of the law’s coverage went into effect. Sharon Levin, director of federal reproductive health policy for the National Women’s Law Center, said the battle isn’t over. “The Supreme Court emphasized that the order ‘should not be construed as an expression of the court’s views on the merits,’” Levin said. “We are confident that once the merits in this case are fully considered by the 10th Circuit, it will once again uphold the birth control regulations as it did in December.” The Supreme Court already has decided to rule on whether businesses may use religious objections to escape a requirement to cover birth control for employees. |
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