When the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate went into effect in 2012, the Obama people wanted the vast majority of companies and private institutions to comply.

Even if you were an independent Christian hospital, orphanage, homeless shelter or another religious organization, you were not exempt from the rule that your employee health insurance plan had to cover the cost of contraception and abortion-inducing drugs.

Even the Little Sisters of the Poor were denied an exemption.

Founded in France in 1839, the Little Sisters of the Poor is a Catholic order of nuns that runs retirement and nursing homes for the elderly poor in more than 30 countries — with 27 residences in the United States.

The Sisters rely on private charity, not government funding.

They ask for nothing from the government but the freedom to celebrate their vows of poverty and service as they bathe........

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