Judge rules against Lancaster County company over PPACA contraception requirement

“Congress required coverage of Women’s Preventive Healthcare in order to address inequities in the current healthcare system, which leads ‘women of childbearing age [to] spend 68 percent more in out-of-pocket health care costs than men,’” the brief said.

“Whatever burden the Hahns may feel from being involved with a for-profit corporation that provides health insurance that could possibly be used to pay for contraceptives, that burden is simply too indirect to be considered substantial under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act,” Goldberg wrote.