Washington (CNN)– Craft store giant Hobby Lobby is
bracing for a $1.3 million a day fine beginning January 1 for
noncompliance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,
dubbed Obamacare.
The company opposes providing some contraceptives to employees
through its company health care plan on religious grounds, saying some
contraceptive products, like the morning after pill, equate to abortion.
After failing to receive temporary relief from the fines from the
Supreme Court, Hobby Lobby announced late Thursday through its attorneys
that it "will continue to provide health insurance to all qualified
employees. To remain true to their faith, it is not their intention, as a
company, to pay for abortion-inducing drugs."
In September, Hobby Lobby and affiliate
Mardel, a Christian bookstore chain, sued the federal government for
violating their owners' religious freedom and ability to freely exercise
their religion.
"All they're asking for is a narrow exemption from the law that says
they don't have to provide drugs they believe cause abortions," Hobby
Lobby attorney Kyle Duncan, a general counsel for the Becket Fund for
Religious Liberty, told CNN affiliate KFOR in November. "Our basic point
is the government can't put a corporation in the position of choosing
between its faith and following the law." Continue at CNN
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