WFB:
A federal district court in California ruled Thursday that a state law requiring churches to pay for elective abortions in their health insurance plans is unconstitutional.
Three California churches, represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, in 2015 challenged the constitutionality of California’s Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, which mandates that companies—including churches and other religious organizations—include coverage for elective abortions in their employee group health plans. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California on Thursday sided with the churches, stating that Mary Watanabe, the director of the California Department of Managed Health Care, “has not shown ‘[she] lacks other means of achieving [her] desired goal without imposing a substantial burden on the exercise of religion by [plaintiffs].'”
“The director’s denial of the churches’ request for exceptions to accommodate their religious beliefs, based solely on the fact that those requests did not originate with a plan, was not narrowly tailored to serve a compelling interest,” the court wrote. more
Medical savings plans could be the answer …but Obama/Romney care forbids that vector. Can’t have the proles controlling their health care options!
Only took ’em a half-century of having to hire lawyers, too!
Odin,
Only if the medical savings plans allow you to accumulate from year to year (like any bank or credit union)-vs-“use it or lose it”.
Can you imagine a bank saying, “you didn’t use all the money in your account this year, so we’re going to confiscate from your account to ourselves (because)”?
SNS
Important correction. I ONLY TOOK 7 YEARS.
Arnie ADJUSTED K-K to include abortion 14 years ago. Church went to court 7 years ago. Before the “Bush Republican” “adjusted the law; it did not force, nor include abortion.
I voted Arnie every time. He was not a “Bush Republican” in ’03; went UNIPARTY in Fall of ’04.