Pro-Life News

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Washington can keep requiring health plans covering maternity care to also cover abortion, ending, for now, a six-year constitutional challenge brought by Cedar Park Assembly of God in Kirkland. Washington's three-decade-old conscience statute lets an employer refuse to purchase coverage for a service it objects to on religious or moral grounds, while requiring the employee's carrier to separately tell workers how to obtain the excluded service anyway. Cedar Park argued that leaves it facilitating abortion no matter what it does. Read more...