A federal judge ruled Monday that employers need not cite religious objections to escape the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's contraception mandates.
The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon, an appointee of President George W. Bush, came in response to a suit brought by March for Life, an anti-abortion advocacy group. Leon argued in his decision that only exempting employers that cited religious objections was a violation of the 14th amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law.
Like many of the religious groups that have objected to the contraception mandate, March for Life opposes certain forms of contraception that it believes are equivalent to abortion, such as the morning-after pill and intrauterine devices.
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