State attempts to define religion: the ramifications of applying mandatory prescription contraceptive coverage statutes to religious employers. From: Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: Stabile, Susan J. | COPYRIGHT 2005 Harvard Society for Law and Public Policy, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

I. INTRODUCTION

There has been much attention given of late to the issue of whether the law should require private employers to cover prescription contraceptives under their health care plans. Although the exclusion of prescription contraceptive coverage by plans that offer coverage for other prescription medication was for many years not an issue that received attention, the decision by significant numbers of plans in the mid-1990s to cover Viagra made the failure of pl...

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