government-sponsored health insurance and the cost of contraception

The controversy of the mandate announced by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius requiring all employers providing insurance to cover the costs of contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs has begun to move to the courts. Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, notes several groups and multiple state attorneys general have filed or joined lawsuits against the mandate. “This is not an issue about contraceptives. This is an issue of religious…