Supreme Court Again Punts on Religious Issue in Obamacare Case

The U.S. Supreme Court dodged a critical question Wednesday when it handed the Trump Administration a win in a case over Obamacare’s birth control coverage rule—whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act compelled the government to adopt broad exemptions to the requirement that employers provide health plans that pay in full for employees’ birth control.

The top court upheld new rules providing opt outs to employers who object on religious or moral grounds to the so-called contraceptive mandate implementing Obamacare’s women’s essential coverage provisions. Pennsylvania and New Jersey challenged the rules in this case.

The decision makes clear that exemption-eligible employers ...