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Christian colleges tell appeals court to leave them out of abortion-drug coverage

Four Christian colleges and a group of nuns are at the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver today, arguing that the Obama administration should not mess with their health plans to provide abortion drugs to their employees, the Associated Press reports.

Oklahoma’s Southern Nazarene University, Oklahoma Baptist University, Mid-America University and Oklahoma Wesleyan University, and Colorado’s Little Sisters of the Poor, believe that signing away their coverage to another party makes them “feel complicit in providing the contraceptives,” the AP says.

A bit of humor in this legal fight:

The nuns’ lawyer, Mark Rienzi of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, said the government is free to provide contraception coverage on its own without needing any action at all by the religious institutions. The government, he said, simply wants such coverage to come through the institutions’ own plans.

“It’s our plan, that’s what they want to control,” Rienzi said.

“Millions of people around the world get contraceptives with no nuns involved. It’s almost laughable.”

Read the AP story.

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