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The grocer sued but, instead of alleging violations of the broader Constitution of Washington, its attorneys at the Alliance Defending Freedom and the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty only filed under the Free Exercise Clause of the United States Constitution. [16] The case is known as Stormans, Inc. v. Wiesman.
Among Christian denominations today, however, there is a large variety of views regarding birth control that range from the acceptance of birth control to only allowing natural family planning to teaching Quiverfull doctrine, which disallows contraception and holds that Christians should have large families. [3] [4]
Zubik v. Burwell, 578 U.S. 403 (2016), was a case before the United States Supreme Court on whether religious institutions other than churches should be exempt from the contraceptive mandate, a regulation adopted by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that requires non-church employers to cover certain contraceptives for their ...
The first over-the-counter birth control pill, Opill, will be available nationwide — including in Texas — by the end of this month. Still, Arvallo emphasized the implications of the latest ruling.
[2] [1] The new rules resulted in "a storm of violent criticism" that the rules were inapplicable to a pluralistic society and beyond the scope of what the bishops should teach. [3] A report by the Catholic Theological Society of America found the Ethical and Religious Directives to be legalistic, inapplicable to concrete situations, and ...
Texas law requiring that minors have parental permission to get birth control does not run afoul of a federally funded pregnancy health program known as Title X, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade could pave the way for restrictions on access to birth control like Plan B or IUDs.
Anthony Comstock was ultimately responsible for many anti-contraception laws in the U.S.. Contraception was not restricted by law in the United States throughout most of the 19th century, but in the 1870s a social purity movement grew in strength, aimed at outlawing vice in general, and prostitution and obscenity in particular. [22]