{"id":9652,"date":"2012-09-12T10:43:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T15:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=9652"},"modified":"2012-09-12T11:14:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T16:14:06","slug":"hobby-lobby-sues-over-affordable-care-acts-abortion-causing-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/09\/12\/hobby-lobby-sues-over-affordable-care-acts-abortion-causing-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobby Lobby Sues Over Affordable Care Act&#8217;s &#8216;Abortion-Causing&#8217; Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9659\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamwilson\/5121983302\/sizes\/z\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9659\" title=\"Hobby Lobby\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/09\/hobby-lobby-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Adam Wilson \/ Flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>Hobby Lobby Stores and its founders have filed a lawsuit over the Affordable Care Act&#8217;s birth control mandate.<\/p><p>The lawsuit claims the health care law is forcing the Oklahoma City-based company to provide insurance that covers morning-after pills and other birth control products, which company founder David Green and his family&#8217;s lawsuit says violates their religious beliefs.<\/p><p>The <em>Tulsa World<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/news\/article.aspx?subjectid=336&articleid=20120912_336_0_OKLAHO188633&rss_lnk=1\">Wayne Greene on the filing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Green family\u2019s religious beliefs forbid them from participating in, providing access to, paying for, training others to engage in, or otherwise supporting abortion-causing drugs and devices.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><p><!--more-->Morning-after pills like Plan B, Ella and IUDs can prevent a human embryo from implanting on the wall of the uterus, which the suit says constitutes an abortion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The suit against U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius lists Hobby Lobby, Mardel Inc. and family members of company founder David Green as the plaintiffs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hobby Lobby Stores and its founders have filed a lawsuit over the Affordable Care Act&#8217;s birth control mandate.The lawsuit claims the health care law is forcing the Oklahoma City-based company to provide insurance that covers morning-after pills and other birth control products, which company founder David Green and his family&#8217;s lawsuit says violates their religious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":9659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,16],"tags":[400,357],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9663,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652\/revisions\/9663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}