Sister Constance Veit of Little Sisters of the Poor shares a laugh with resident Eva Howse, no age given, on Monday, March 21, 2016 in Washington, D.C. The Little Sisters of the Poor filed a complaint against the Affordable Care Actís contraceptive mandate in 2013. “The common misconception is that Form 700 is an opt out by which we sign off that we object to these services and then we are removed from any association with them. But in reality, it’s an opt in or a permission slip by which, if we were to sign it, we would be granting the government authorization to enter into our healthcare plan, to take it over, said Veit,” from the point of view of respecting the sincerely held religious beliefs of others, it’s troublesome to me. I don’t really understand how they could be taking a position that this is a compelling interest in our case for our relatively small number of employees when one hundred million people are exempt. It just does’t really make sense.” Their case will be argued in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Photo by Jarrad Henderson, courtesy of USA Today

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