Hobby Lobby Sues Over Affordable Care Act’s ‘Abortion-Causing’ Mandate

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Hobby Lobby Stores and its founders have filed a lawsuit over the Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate.

The lawsuit claims the health care law is forcing the Oklahoma City-based company to provide insurance that covers morning-after pills and other birth control products, which company founder David Green and his family’s lawsuit says violates their religious beliefs.

The Tulsa World‘s Wayne Greene on the filing:

“The Green family’s religious beliefs forbid them from participating in, providing access to, paying for, training others to engage in, or otherwise supporting abortion-causing drugs and devices.”

Morning-after pills like Plan B, Ella and IUDs can prevent a human embryo from implanting on the wall of the uterus, which the suit says constitutes an abortion.