Health law birth control coverage before justices

Published March 24, 2014 12:00am ET



The Obama administration and its opponents are renewing the Supreme Court battle over President Obama’s health care law in a case that pits the religious rights of employers against the rights of women to the birth control of their choice.

Two years after the entire law survived the justices’ review by a single vote, the court is hearing arguments Tuesday in a religion-based challenge from family-owned companies that object to covering certain contraceptives in their health plans as part of the law’s preventive care requirement.

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