Hobby Lobby ruling: firms can refuse to provide contraception coverage
…[T]he supreme court ruled that some companies should be allowed a religious exemption from rules requiring them to include all forms of contraception in employee health policies…[A] narrow majority of five justices argued that “closely held” businesses such as the family-run Hobby Lobby chain of stores, which brought the test case, enjoyed the same religious protections under law as individuals. Hobby Lobby's Christian owners and others like them will now be free to remove four controversial contraception methods from insurance plans provided to their 13,000 staff, claiming they amount to a form of abortion…[Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg]…warned of dire consequences: “…Suppose an employer’s sincerely held religious belief is offended by health coverage of vaccines, or paying the minimum wage.”…[Also refers to Conestoga Wood]