Bible Publisher Won’t Have to Fund Birth Control Coverage
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A Bible publisher won a temporary order blocking the health-care reform law’s requirement that employers provide insurance coverage for contraceptives.
U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton in Washington today ruled that the law’s coverage mandate “substantially burdens” the religious exercise of Tyndale House Publishers Inc. by imposing “considerable” financial penalties for failing to offer birth control coverage to its 260 full-time employees.