In June 2014 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that family-owned for-profit employers cannot be forced by the federal health care reform law to provide coverage for prescription contraceptives. Since then, numerous religious colleges and charities have sought to earn the same exemption, but have had limited success. A history of these ongoing court battles is documented in this photo gallery. View the gallery.
Another federal appeals court has ruled that religious colleges and charities are not wholly exempt from the health care reform law's so-called “contraceptive mandate.”