Earlier this month, U.S. District
Court Judge John E. Steele issued an order halting enforcement of the HHS
Abortion Pill Mandate against six Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA)
ministries that would otherwise be forced to assist the federal government’s
provision of abortion-inducing drugs and devices.
Liberty Institute and volunteer
attorneys Christopher A. Roach and Stephanie M. Martin represent four
retirement community ministries of the CMA and two of its affiliated colleges. The ruling provides these ministries relief from
the federal government’s Abortion Pill Mandate that requires even CMA
church-affiliated ministries to facilitate insurance coverage for
abortion-inducing drugs and devices.
“Today’s ruling reaffirms our
government’s responsibility to never force any religious ministry to violate
the very faith that motivates their ministry,” said Matthew Kacsmaryk, Liberty
Institute’s Deputy General
Counsel. “This is an important victory
for CMA ministries dedicated to protecting innocent human life from conception
to natural death and training Christian students for lives of service. Under the Constitution and the Religious
Freedom Restoration Act, the federal government may not force these ministries
to abandon the sincerely held religious beliefs that motivate their service to
God and man.”
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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