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Contraceptive Mandate Halted For Ala. Broadcaster

A federal appeals court has temporarily barred the federal government from forcing a Catholic broadcasting network EWTN to comply with a law requiring them to cover contraceptives for women.
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A federal appeals court has temporarily barred the federal government from forcing a Catholic broadcasting network EWTN to comply with a law requiring them to cover contraceptives for women.

A federal appeals court has temporarily barred the federal government from forcing a Catholic broadcasting network in Alabama to comply with a law requiring them to cover contraceptives for women.

Eternal Word Television Network, which has studios in a Birmingham suburb, is appealing a federal judge's order from last week dismissing its lawsuit, which maintained that requiring employers to include contraception in their health care coverage is unconstitutional.

A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta issued an order Monday barring enforcement of the requirement pending the outcome of the network's appeal.

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