The HHS-Mandate Battle.

The article reports on the seeking of religious exemptions from a Health and Human Services (HHS) regulation implementing Obamacare by Catholic institutions in 2012. The regulation would reportedly require employers to provide abortifacients, contraceptives and sterilization to their employees. The article states that President Barack Obama's administration conceded that making employers provide benefits that are morally objectionable to them is a substantial burden on their religious exercise.