Mon Sep 17, 2012, 05:07 PM

pstokely (7,520 posts)

Missouri college challenges federal health care law

Source: STL Post Dispatch

JEFFERSON CITY • Missouri’s College of the Ozarks has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a provision of the Affordable Care Act that would require its employee health plan to cover abortion services and certain types of contraception, including the morning-after pill.

Leaders of the Presbyterian liberal arts college located near Branson say the mandate violates the school’s institutional religious beliefs.

“The mandate chills the college's religious exercise by exposing the college to substantial fines for its religious beliefs and exercise of those beliefs,” the lawsuit states. “The mandate's required provision of insurance coverage for education and counseling concerning elective abortions and abortifacient drugs compels the college to speak in a manner contrary to its religious beliefs.”

The college is seeking an order that will protect it from enforcement of the requirement, as well as court costs.

Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/political-fix/missouri-college-challenges-federal-health-care-law/article_205415a0-00e2-11e2-81c1-0019bb30f31a.html

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7 replies	Author	Time	Post
Missouri college challenges federal health care law (Original post)	pstokely	Sep 2012	OP
as opposed to its religious believers simply not using those services....	mike_c	Sep 2012	#1
I think it is time that religious institutions lose their tax exempt status	still_one	Sep 2012	#2
It's clear the RW don't have any answers to the ACA	Blue_Tires	Sep 2012	#3
I am getting so fed up with this nonsense.	drm604	Sep 2012	#4
College of the Ozarks tuition increases 19,000%	Blue Idaho	Sep 2012	#5
Because in Missouri	Smilo	Sep 2012	#6
Since when does an INSTITUTION have beliefs?!?!??	lastlib	Sep 2012	#7

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Mon Sep 17, 2012, 05:09 PM

mike_c (31,505 posts)

1. as opposed to its religious believers simply not using those services....

Sheesh.

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Mon Sep 17, 2012, 05:10 PM

still_one (31,075 posts)

2. I think it is time that religious institutions lose their tax exempt status

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Mon Sep 17, 2012, 05:16 PM

Blue_Tires (31,647 posts)

3. It's clear the RW don't have any answers to the ACA

other than keep it in perpetual lawsuit limbo...

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Mon Sep 17, 2012, 05:26 PM

drm604 (13,962 posts)

4. I am getting so fed up with this nonsense.

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Mon Sep 17, 2012, 05:29 PM

Blue Idaho (1,096 posts)

5. College of the Ozarks tuition increases 19,000%

Hey they have to pay for those fancy constitutional lawyers somehow - right?

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Mon Sep 17, 2012, 05:53 PM

Smilo (1,885 posts)

6. Because in Missouri

we likes r women folk bare foot and pregnant.

These people are pathetic and ignorant - no one is forcing anybody to utilize the coverage.

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Mon Sep 17, 2012, 06:13 PM

lastlib (3,743 posts)

7. Since when does an INSTITUTION have beliefs?!?!??

Institutions are NOT people!!! (Are you listening, Mitt??) They have NO conscience, NO opinions, NO religion!! These are PERSONAL, INDIVIDUAL things possessed only by corporeal sentient beings--HUMANS!! What right do these creatures have to try to impose their "beliefs" on the decisions of REAL people???

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