In a 5-4 decision today (June 30, 2014), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that for-profit companies can cite religious convictions to opt out of the contraception mandate that would have required all businesses to provide free contraceptives -- including those that can cause abortion -- to their employees.
The decision represents a huge blow to President Obama's "Affordable Health Care" law, and a victory for hundreds of businesses that have claimed that the mandate would require them to violate their belief that all life is sacred.
The ruling came in favor of two family-held companies -- Hobby Lobby, owned by the Green family, and Conestoga Wood Specialties, owned by the Hahn family -- both of whom had said that the mandate would represent an unacceptable moral obstacle to their businesses.
"This legal challenge has always remained about one thing and one thing only," said David Green when his company first filed suit to stop the mandate -- "the right of our family businesses to live out our sincere and deeply held religious convictions as guaranteed by the law and the Constitution."
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