Notre Dame on Tuesday announced it’s not going to take the Affordable Care Act’s mandate to pay for abortions without a fight:
The University of Notre Dame on Tuesday re-filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court … for relief from a mandate by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that, contrary to Catholic teaching, requires Notre Dame and similar religious organizations to provide through their insurance plans or third-party administrators contraceptives, sterilization procedures and drugs that some assert induce abortions.
“Our abiding concern in both the original filing of May 21, 2012, and this re-filing has been Notre Dame’s freedom — and indeed the freedom of many religious organizations in this country — to live out a religious mission,” Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., Notre Dame’s president, said. “We have sought neither to prevent women from having access to services, nor even to prevent the government from providing them.”
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