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January 11, 2013

SF Chronicle: Contraception coverage heads to high court

by Bob Egelko
The San Francisco Chronicle

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's narrow decision to uphold the federal health care law, another challenge to the mandate for insurance coverage is headed toward the court. This one involves contraception, religion and, most likely, corporate "personhood."

So far, 42 suits have been filed in the nation's courts challenging the law's requirement that workplace health insurance plans cover birth-control pills, IUDs and other female contraceptives, without co-payments.

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