Georgia Public Policy Foundation responds to Supreme Court Ruling on Contraception Mandate

Atlanta – Kelly McCutchen, president of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, hailed the ruling today by the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of Hobby Lobby Stores and against the Obama Administration, over the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act.

Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. both argued that the 2010 mandate violated their religious freedom. Both companies believe that certain forms of contraception induce abortion, which violates the religious convictions of their owners.

“We are pleased by the ruling, which extends the Constitution’s protection of religious freedom to millions of employers,” McCutchen said after the 5-4 ruling.

“Next, we hope to see an even broader victory for taxpayers: that the courts favor the rule of law in the case of the government’s arbitrary and unjustifiable position that the law’s ‘premium-assistance tax credits’ for state exchanges apply also to federally run exchanges.”