The Green family respects the religious convictions of all Americans, including those who do
not agree with them. All they are asking is for the government to give them the same respect
by not forcing them to violate their religious beliefs. Read more.
The Becket Fund is proud to stand with Hobby Lobby – as well as our other five clients
challenging this unconstitutional mandate. But, our services are rendered at no cost and
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The Green family has no moral objection to the use of preventive contraceptives and will continue its longstanding practice of covering these preventive contraceptives for its employees. However, the Green family cannot provide or pay for two specific abortion-inducing drugs. These drugs are Plan B and Ella, the so-called morning-after pill and the week-after pill. Covering these drugs, as the government is forcing them to do under the threat of $1.3 million penalty per day, would violate their most deeply held religious belief that life begins at conception, when an egg is fertilized. The FDA-approved government birth control guide clearly states that these two drugs, the morning-after pill and the week-after pill, may prevent fertilized eggs from implanting in the womb, thus aborting the fertilized egg. Read more here.
“We simply cannot abandon our religious beliefs to comply with this mandate.”