{"id":3953,"date":"2013-11-09T14:35:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T21:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2013-11-09T14:35:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T21:35:42","slug":"7th-circuit-court-of-appeals-strikes-down-obamacare-contraceptive-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/11\/09\/7th-circuit-court-of-appeals-strikes-down-obamacare-contraceptive-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"7th Circuit Court of Appeals Strikes Down Obamacare Contraceptive Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The 7<sup>th<\/sup> Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against the Obamacare contraceptive mandate and being an undue burden on religious freedom:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We hold that the plaintiffs \u2014 the business owners and their companies \u2014 may challenge the mandate. We further hold that compelling them to cover those services substantially burdens their religious-exercise rights. Under RFRA the government must justify the burden under the standard of strict scrutiny. So far it has not done so, and we doubt that it can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The full ruling can be read below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p  style=\" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\">   <a title=\"View 7th Circuit Court&#x27;s ruling on Korte, et al. vs. Sebelius on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/182895497\/7th-Circuit-Court-s-ruling-on-Korte-et-al-vs-Sebelius\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" >7th Circuit Court&#x27;s ruling on Korte, et al. vs. Sebelius<\/a> by <a title=\"View ThePoliticalHat's profile on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/ThePoliticalHat\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" >ThePoliticalHat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/182895497\/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;access_key=key-vo48m8dbapmyhscalhf&#038;show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.772922022279349\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_68534\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Hat Tip<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/178974\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instapundit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against the Obamacare contraceptive mandate and being an undue burden on religious freedom: &#8220;We hold that the plaintiffs \u2014 the business owners and their companies \u2014 may challenge the mandate. We further &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/11\/09\/7th-circuit-court-of-appeals-strikes-down-obamacare-contraceptive-mandate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3956,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}