When the Supreme Court reversed a preliminary injunction against several federal agencies and officials in June for “coerc[ing] or significantly encourag[ing]” tech platforms to suppress content, Washington state saw a new way to protect its mandatory abortion coverage in maternity healthcare plans from religious freedom challenges.
Five years into a lawsuit by Cedar Park Assembly of God against SB 6219, which includes criminal penalties up to prison, the Evergreen State argues that insurers won’t necessarily offer abortion-free plans if the court permanently bars it from enforcing surgical- and chemical-abortion coverage against such religious ministries that are opposed to abortion.
The feds successfully argued the same in Murthy v. Missouri – that Facebook, YouTube and others made their own content-moderation decisions against government-disfavored narratives before they were supposedly coerced, an injunction wouldn’t stop them, and that censored users were unlikely to be suppressed again due to federal pressure.
Deputy Solicitor General Tera Heintz repeatedly invoked the seven-week-old precedent in oral argument Thursday before the 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals, which already reinstated the case – finding Cedar Park has legal standing – only for a district judge to toss it again a year ago.
The Supreme Court’s refusal in June to block the Food and Drug Administration’s expansion of access to mifepristone, finding no legal injury to pro-life emergency doctors who feared they would be compelled to finish abortions for women injured by the abortion pill, also determines the Seattle-area church cannot stop a law limited to insurers’ obligations, Heintz said. […]
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