Wheaton College May Have to ‘Outsource Sin’

By: American Decency Staff

A federal appeals court will not give Wheaton College a preliminary injunction in connection with its civil suit to be free from one key Obamacare requirement.

So for now, the college is required to notify the government of its objection to providing emergency contraception through the college’s health insurance plan.

When notification takes place, it triggers a program to provide free contraception coverage for health plan participants. The college considers the use of FDA-approved, morning-after pills (Plan B, ella) and intrauterine devices (IUDs) immoral since such contraception may work after fertilization.

But the US District Court of Appeals (Seventh Circuit) on July 1 denied thepreliminary injunction. “[Notification] is hardly a burdensome requirement; nor does it leave the provider—the opt out—with any residual involvement in the coverage of drugs or devices of which it sincerely disapproves on religious grounds,” wrote Judge Richard Posner.

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