Standing Their Ground: Corporations' Fight For Religious Rights in Light of the Enactment of the Patient Protect and Affordable Care Act Contraceptive Coverage Mandate
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2012
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Texas Tech Law Review
Abstract
Explores the disputes that have arisen following the implementation of the PPACA contraceptive coverage mandate and asserts the necessity for extending religious rights to for-profit corporations that must currently choose to either violate their religious beliefs or face penalization.
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PPACA Contraceptive Coverage Mandate initiatives, Theories of corporate personhood, Corporate constitutional rights, Newland v. Sebelius, Religious exemptions, Religious challenges to the PPACA, Alternatives to the contraception mandate, Government provision of free birth control
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Katherine Lepard, Standing Their Ground: Corporations' Fight For Religious Rights in Light of the Enactment of the Patient Protect and Affordable Care Act Contraceptive Coverage Mandate, 45 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 1041 (2012-2013)