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United States: The courts have thrown out the attempt by fundie employers to weasel out of including birth control in medical coverage.
The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that Catholic Charities must provide its employees in California with medical coverage for birth control, in spite of its religious objections to contraception.
The ruling has sweeping implications for religion-based nonprofit organizations and hospitals throughout the state and could influence decisions made in at least 20 other states that have similar laws requiring employers to provide contraception as part of employee health coverage, legal experts said. A similar case, brought by Catholic and Protestant organizations, is winding its way through the New York courts.
Catholic Group Is Told to Pay for Birth Control—New York Times, 2nd March 2004.
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