{"id":2063,"date":"2012-12-31T00:32:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T00:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2012-12-31T00:33:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T00:33:35","slug":"update-on-american-hhs-birth-control-mandate-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2063","title":{"rendered":"Update on American HHS birth control mandate controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 14 December, Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino&#8217;s Pizza, filed a lawsuit against the HHS regulation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxny.com\/story\/20350175\/tom-monaghan-sues-feds-over-new-health-care-law\" target=\"_blank\">[Associated Press<\/a>].\u00a0 Five days later, a federal appeals court reinstated lawsuits filed by Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey that had been dismissed by a lower court.\u00a0 The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals also ordered the Obama administration to report every sixty days on its progress in redrafting the regulation to accommodate employers with religious objections to providing insurance for birth control.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2012\/12\/19\/court-obama-admin-must-rewrite-hhs-mandate-to-protect-religious-liberty\/?pr=1\" target=\"_blank\">Life News<\/a>]\u00a0 News of the Wheaton and Belmont decisions came too late for inclusion in a column in the\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMp1214605?query=TOC\">New England Journal of Medicine<\/a>, which outlined the litigation and the issues.The federal Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling that Hobby Lobby must comply with the mandate because it does not impose a &#8220;substantial burden&#8221; on the exercise of freedom of religion by the company&#8217;s owner. [<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/healthwatch\/other\/274117-hobby-lobby-denied-relief-from-obama-birth-control-rules\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a>]\u00a0 In contrast, O&#8217;Brien Industrial Holdings of Missouri was granted an injunction by an appeals court that prohibits the federal government from enforcing the regulation.\u00a0 The decision overturns a lower court ruling\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2012\/12\/03\/hhs-anti-conscience-mandate-challengers-get-federal-appellate-court-victory\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Foundry, 3 December<\/a>].\u00a0 A similar injunction was granted to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.becketfund.org\/hhsinformationcentral\/\">Griesedieck\u00a0family<\/a>&#8216;s American Pulverizer Company in Minnesota [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/336272\/does-businessman-america-have-religious-conscience-rights-kathryn-jean-lopez\" target=\"_blank\">National Review<\/a>] Commenting that there is no &#8220;trust us changes are coming&#8221; clause in the U.S. Constitution, a federal judge in New York\u00a0upheld the right of the Catholic Archdiocese of New York to proceed with its lawsuit against the mandate. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.becketfund.org\/court-rules-in-favor-of-roman-catholic-archdiocese-of-new-york-on-hhs-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Becket Fund, 6 December<\/a>]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Meanwhile, the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic religious order that provides nursing care to the elderly poor in 30 American cities, is considering the possiblity of leaving the United States if the current regulation stands. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/obamacare-mandate-may-force-nuns-devoted-to-the-eldery-to-leave-u.s?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=560beac659-LifeSiteNews_com_Canada_Full_Text_12_19_2012&amp;utm_medium=email\">LifeSite News<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 14 December, Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino&#8217;s Pizza, filed a lawsuit against the HHS regulation [Associated Press].\u00a0 Five days later, a federal appeals court reinstated lawsuits filed by Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey that had been dismissed by a lower court.\u00a0 The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals also ordered the Obama administration to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2063\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update on American HHS birth control mandate controversy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[643,217,9,28],"tags":[85,183,1193,242,381,268,388,363],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-catholicism","category-lawsuits","category-news","category-usa","tag-belmont-abbey","tag-hhs-preventive-services-mandate","tag-little-sisters-of-the-poor","tag-missouri","tag-new-york","tag-obrien-industrial-holdings","tag-tom-monaghan","tag-wheaton-college"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Update on American HHS birth control mandate controversy - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2063\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Update on American HHS birth control mandate controversy - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On 14 December, Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino&#8217;s Pizza, filed a lawsuit against the HHS regulation [Associated Press].\u00a0 Five days later, a federal appeals court reinstated lawsuits filed by Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey that had been dismissed by a lower court.\u00a0 The D.C. 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