A Christian college gave thanks to God in February after winning a legal battle with significant implications for religious liberty in the US.
Wheaton College won the right to not provide health insurance which covers abortion-inducing drugs. The case centred on the Affordable Care Act – ‘Obamacare’ – which obliges employers to provide health insurance that includes ‘contraceptives’ which act to destroy human embryos.
A district judge ruled that Wheaton’s civil rights would be violated if it were forced to provide these drugs, and permanently banned the Government from forcing them to do so. It ends a five-year legal battle for the college, which is guided by its mission ‘For Christ and His Kingdom’.
